Born Free Trilogy

Joy Adamson is world-famous as the woman who walked with lions. These are the books that brought the story of her work to a public whose imagination was captured by the discovery of this remarkable interaction between man and beast. "Born Free" was first published in 1960, and tells the story of her relationship with Elsa, raising her from a young cub and later releasing her into the wild. "Living Free" and "Forever Free" continues Elsa's story and that of her cubs. Immortalized in film by Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, this is the original story for a new generation of readers to discover for themselves.

Joy Adamson was a pioneer in the field of conservation. With her husband George, senior game warden in a huge area of the northern frontier province of Kenya, she established one of the world's first wild animal appeals. Now the Elsa Conservation Trust, it operates an education, training and wildlife retreat centre at the Adamsons' former home of Elsamere, on the shores of Lake Naivasha.