Joy Adamson Joy Adamson Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner, 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, "Born Free", describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. "Born Free" was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. Adamson was born to Victor and Traute Gessner in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic), the second of three daughters. Her parents divorced when she was 10, and she went to live with
Lioness Rampant cat Faithful are killed in the battle. Ultimately, Alanna kills Roger. After the insurgents are captured, Alanna returns to the Bazhir (a Bedouin-like ethnicity of Tortall's southern desert) to recover from her losses. Jonathan marries Thayet, and later appoints George a baron to guard Tortall's coast. Thereafter Alanna marries George. Lioness Rampant Lioness Rampant is a fantasy novel by Tamora Pierce, the fourth and last in a series of books, "The Song of the Lioness". It details an adventure of the knight Alanna of Trebond, and her final battle between with her archenemy, Duke Roger of Conte. The first chapter