FOREVER FREE (Bantam SP7046)
by Joy Adamson
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/None as Issued
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Bantam, 1967. First Edition, 7th Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW w/faint margin discoloration. Vintage 1967 Bantam SP7046, First Edition, 7th Printing; published w/o ISBN. Illustrated softcover (lioness Elsa swimming w/her cubs)/NF; sound w/edge rubs. 3rd & last volume of naturalist, artist & author Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson's memoir (1910 - 1980) of life w/lioness Elsa. In Born Free, Adamson shared her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa --- the journal, translated to many languages, was adapted to Academy Award-winning film w/the same title, and, was followed by Living Free. Forever Free, written in 1962, is the 3rd volume and memoir of Adamson's final days w/Elsa. It picks up when Elsa, having mated w/a wild lion, mothers 3 cubs --- Jespah, Gopa & Little Elsa --- and brings them home to the Adamson camp. Ill, Elsa dies pre-maturely, and the Adamsons assume the role of surrogate parents & guardianship. A heroic record of intimate bonding of living beings. 246 pgs, brought to life w/some 30 b/w photos.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006236
- Title
- FOREVER FREE (Bantam SP7046)
- Author
- Joy Adamson
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 7th Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 246
- Keywords
- Journal, Memoir Humans & Lions, Ecology, Elsa the Lioness, Joy Adamson
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