From the Book Jacket:
Even more fascinating than the beloved best seller Born Free is this absorbing story of how Elsa, the world-famous lioness, raised her three cubs in the African bush with the help of her devoted friends, Joy and George Adamson.
This stirring story of the cubs' first year of life reveals an unusually rewarding relationship between animals and humans that dissolves the barriers between the two worlds. For although the cubs-impish , Jespah, jealous Gopa, and timid Little Elsa-romp through these pages with carefree abandon, the adults-the Adamsons and Elsa-must contend with the ever- present menaces of the wild-charging buffaloes, crocodiles lurking in the shallows, marauding elephants, hostile lions, and, most treacherous of all, enraged African poachers out gunning for Elsa's hide.
