FROM AFRICA- THE MOST REMARKABLE ANIMAL STORY EVER TOLD! It began when George Adamson, an African Game Warden, had to shoot a lioness in self-defense, and brought her three orphaned cubs home to his wife. Two of the cubs they gave to zoos, but the third they named Elsa and kept for themselves. Elsa became their baby. She slept with them. She played and cuddled. She followed them everywhere like a love-sick puppy. But inevitably, she grew to be a full-sized lioness and the Adamsons were faced with a cruel choice: either consign Elsa to a zoo, or give her the freedom which she was unfit to enjoy or even survive. Unable to do either, the Adamsons deliberately set out to train Elsa to kill and fend for herself. Slowly and methodically, they finally succeeded in turning her back into the fierce wild animal nature intended her to be. But Elsa's love for them could never be changed... BORN FREE "A NARRATIVE UNPARALLELED IN NATURAL HISTORY LITERATURE!" New York Herald Tribune