![]() They are a highly personalized blend of all with a large dose of sentiment and empathy thrown in. They are not zoolgical in the pure sense, nor are they psychological studies or manuals on wildlife management. The book is "Queen of Shaba," which along with her earler volumes "Born Free" (the first volume about Elsa) and "The Spotted Sphinx" (concerning Pippa) completes the "Adamson trilogy."Īdamson's studies are difficult to characterize. Just 10 days prior to her death, Adamson had completed a manuscript for a book on the life of a leopard, the last of the "big three" African predators she had studied. Ironically, her murderer doctored the scene of the crime to make it appear as if she had been surprised and mauled by a lion, a plausible enough explanation for one unaware of Adamson's unique understanding of the denizens of the African bush. 3, 1980, Joy Adamson was slain near her bush camp by an itinerant camp helper following a dispute over wages. ![]() ![]() The intimate and moving portraits of her personal relationship with Elsa the lioness and Pippa the cheetah inspired a generation of readers who wanted and somehow needed to know that there was more to these elegant and powerful carnivores than the impersonal killing and frightening savagery all too frequently portrayed in legend. It is hard to believe that Joy Adamson will write no more of those majestic and fearful predators she called friend and companion. ![]()
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