Pippa's Challenge

This book has been read, some wear covers and dust covers. Some stickers and markings on inner pages as this was former library book. Spine intact, no creases. "Joy Adamson was an amazing woman. After she and her husband George reintroduced Elsa the lioness back into the wild she took on the challenge of a cheetah. Pippa the cheetah's story began in The Spotted Sphinx and is continued in Pippa's Challenge. You'll cheer at Pippa's accomplishments, cringe at her challenges and in this book root for her and her family." Good Reads "Joy Adamson (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which 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. Born to Victor and Traute Gessner in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic) and was the 2nd of 3 girls. Her father was a wealthy architect. After the divorce of her parents, Joy went to live with her grandmother. In her autobiography The Searching Spirit, Adamson wrote about her grandmother, saying, "It is to her I owe anything that may be good in me."" Good Reads