George Adamson spent much of his life in the Kenyan wilderness, far from the celebrity that surrounded his wife Joy and Born Free . His path to becoming one of Africa's best-known lion conservationists was anything but ordinary. He worked as a locust control officer, gold prospector, beeswax trader and professional hunter before becoming a game warden. Eventually, Kora in northern Kenya became the place where he devoted himself to returning lions to the wild, as per a report by KORA project.