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Friederike Victoria "Joy" Gessner
- Six years later he married Friederike Victoria "Joy" Gessner.
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Six years later he married Friederike Victoria "Joy" Gessner. [3] (who became the best-selling author Joy Adamson). It was in 1956 that he raised the lioness cub, Elsa, which he later released into the wild, which adventure became the subject of his wife's best-selling book Born Free (1960), later in 1966 made into the feature film Born Free.
Aug 21, 1989 · Conservationist George Adamson was slain by bandits near the wildlife reserve where he and his late wife, “Born Free” author Joy Adamson, taught lions raised in captivity to live in the wild.
Sep 22, 1986 · He and his wife Joy Adamson are best known through the book and film Born Free, which is based on the true story of Elsa, an orphaned lioness cub they raised and later released into the wild. Adamson first visited Kenya in 1924.
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Apr 21, 1979 · In 1956, a game warden in Kenya named George Adamson undertook a routine mision-to shoot a lion that had killed a local tribesman. He then returned home with three orphaned cubs for his wife,...
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Joy (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) and George Adamson met in Kenya on safari and were later married in 1944. At the time they met, Joy, who was given this name by her second husband (a botanist), had a deep interest in the natural world and had used her artistic abilities to illustrate East African flora, while George was a game warden for the ...
Joy combined her knowledge and notes with George's diaries to write a book about Elsa - the book Born Free was published in 1960 and became a bestseller which lead to an academy award-winning movie. Joy went on to write 2 other books (about Elsa as a mother and her cubs), that promote conservation and raised money for wildlife. At this point Joy an...
Joy and George set up or were the inspiration for a number of trusts and foundations. Royalties from books and films were also channelled into a charity set up by Joy called the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal. Later, this charity became the Elsa Conservation Trust. Both Joy and George upon their deaths bequeathed their estates to this trust. This included...
JOY ADAMSON. Pioneering naturalist, author and artist, Joy Adamson wrote bestselling book Born Free in 1960, based on her husband George Adamson’s diaries which told the story of her efforts to raise and rehabilitate orphaned lion cub, Elsa, and return her to the wild.
Jan 15, 2020 · Two of them were sent to a zoo but George Adamson and his wife Joy kept the smallest, whom they named Elsa. The couple decided to return Elsa to the wild. The pioneering endeavour was successful, and thanks to books and films about their story, Elsa and the Adamsons became world-famous.
