AKA Friedericke Victoria Gessner

Born: 20-Jan-1910
Birthplace: Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary
Died: 3-Jan-1980
Location of death: Shaba National Reserve, Kenya
Cause of death: Murder

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Naturalist

Nationality: Austria
Executive summary: Born Free

Her employee, Paul Wakwaro Ekai, was convicted of her murder (life sentence).

Husband: Viktor von Klarwill (m. 1935, div.)
Husband: Peter Bally (botanist, div.)
Husband: George Adamson (m. 1944, until her death, d. 1989 murder)

Author of books:
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (1960)
Elsa: The Story of A Lioness (1961, also titled Living Free)
Forever Free: The Final Volume of the Most Beloved Animal Story of Our Time (1963)
The Peoples of Kenya (1967)
The Spotted Sphinx (1969)
Pippa: The Cheetah and Her Cubs (1970)
Joy Adamson's Africa (1972)
Pippa's Challenge (1972)
Peoples of Kenya (1976)
The Searching Spirit: An Autobiography (1978)
Queen of Shaba: The Story of an African Leopard (1980)
Friends from the Forest (1980)

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