KENYA: The Woman Who Loved Lions

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Last week at the Shaba Game Reserve in central Kenya, as dusk fell on her camp, Joy Adamson indulged herself in her customary early evening habit: she set off, alone, on a stroll away from the camp. This time she did not return to hear the nightly news, as she always did. A search party was formed. Soon it found her lifeless body about 100 yards from the camp on a nearby trail. She had been badly mauled across the chest and an arm "by great claws," a friend reported, "no doubt a lion."

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