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This is the book the film was based upon, the story of Elsa the lioness, hand raised by a Senior Game Warden and his wife, Joy Adamson, and later released into the wild. This would be rated five stars except that I really try to be stingy with those. The book didn't make me cry, laugh-out-loud or change my thinking, and Adamson, while she writes well and fluently, doesn't have the impressive, lyrical prose of Beryl Markham and Isak Dinesen, two other European women who wrote celebrated memoirs a
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This is a wonderful book if you are an animal lover. I, however, am not an animal lover. I like animals well enough and it's cool if I can see them in nature from the seat of my car with the windows in between but being as up close and personal as the author and her husband, well, it's a bit much for me. Good for them for their patience and love of the wild. Thank you for writing about it and sharing that world for me. I am not one of those people that they would take along on their camping trip
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