George Adamson
Few men can have lived a more colourful life than George Adamson. He was born in India in 1906 and first came to Kenya in 1924 to work on his father’s coffee farm. Not taking kindly to plantation life he embarked on a varied career as locust control officer, gold prospector, beeswax trader and professional hunter before finding his vocation as a game warden, shooting man-eaters and chasing ivory poachers in Kenya’s wild Northern Province.


Except George, who paid the local district council £750 a year to rent 500 square miles of sun-stricken bush. It was in Kora that he was joined by Tony Fitzjohn, who became a tower of strength and stayed with him in Kora until 1988, setting up his own leopard rehabilitation programme nearby to George’s camp in 1981.






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