George Adamson
British naturalist, writer and Wildlife conservationist (1906-1989) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 83
George Alexander Graham Adamson MBE, also known as the Baba ya Simba, was a British wildlife conservationist and author, based in Kenya. His wife Joy Adamson related in her best-selling book Born Free (1960) the couple's life with Elsa the Lioness, an orphaned cub they raised and later released into the wild.
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Lived 1906 to 1989 · aged 83
