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Joy Adamson

    20 gennaio 1910 – 3 gennaio 1980

    Joy Adamson è stata una naturalista, artista e autrice il cui lavoro si è concentrato sulla cattura dell'essenza della fauna selvatica africana e dei suoi abitanti. Il suo talento artistico è fiorito in dipinti e disegni dettagliati di flora e persone, con molti pezzi ora conservati nel Museo Nazionale del Kenya. Adamson è stata anche una dedicata ambientalista, esemplificata dal suo lavoro con Elsa la leonessa. Questa impresa, raccontata nel suo libro più famoso, ha evidenziato il suo impegno a consentire agli animali selvatici di rimanere nel loro habitat naturale. La sua scrittura e la sua arte si combinano per formare una potente rappresentazione della sua vita e del suo lavoro in Africa.

    Joy Adamson
    Born Free
    Murder Grove
    Forever Free
    Queen of Shaba
    Born free : the story of Elsa
    Selezione della narrativa mondiale
    • 2022

      A gripping new thriller with a killer twist! Two bodies. Thirty years. And a secret that connects them both... 1990 A woman's body is found brutally murdered in the woods, and next to it, a shallow grave hiding a terrified young girl. 2021 When Mia and Rich move to an eco-village in Spain, they're looking for a new start. Val Verde is everything they wished for - at least to begin with. But when someone is murdered in an olive grove, Mia realises the village isn't the safe haven she was hoping for... There's a killer in the village - and they'll stop at nothing until they get revenge...

      Murder Grove
    • 2021
    • 2016

      Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. In 1961, Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself. Since the first publication of Born Free generations of readers have been enchanted, inspired and moved by its uplifting charm and the remarkable interaction between Joy and Elsa. Rediscover the original story, in the words of the woman who reared Elsa and walked with the lions, in this new edition, with an introduction by John Rendall.

      Born free : the story of Elsa
    • 2010
    • 1988

      Joy Adamsonová popisuje svoji práci s levharticí Penny. Joy dlouhou dobu čekala, kdy by se mohla ujmout opuštěného mláděte levharta. Jednou lovecká skupina našla mládě, které bylo zřejmě opuštěné matkou. Joy si vzala mládě na starost a pojmenovala ho Penny. Penny si brzy na Joy zvykla a bralaji jako náhradní matku. Penny rychle rostla a Joy jí musela urychleně najít nový domov. Stala se jím rezervace Shaba.

      Příběh levhartice Penny
    • 1987
    • 1984

      Autobiografie, podle které byl natočen mimořádně úspěšný film. V této knize se Adamsonová zmiňuje i o svém dětství v Opavě. Fotografie: autorka a Josef Vágner

      Volání divočiny
    • 1984

      Joy Adamsonová patrí k pionierom, no nemá nič spoločné s voľakedajšími americkým pioniermi, čo na vozoch pokrytých plachtovinou a ťahaných štvorzáprahom prichádzali do divočiny klčovať lesy – hoci aj ona strávila väčšiu časť života v nehostinnej divočine. Jej však šlo o to, aby našla nový spôsob, ako pozerať na svet okolo nás a lepšie chápať ostatné tvorstvo.

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