Ivory, Apes & Peacocks: Animals, Adventure and Discovery in the Wild Places of Africa
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (692 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0701186038 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He now lives on the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya with his wife and two small sons. He married Joan Thorpe in 1961 and together they produced an array of award-winning wildlife films including Baobab: Portrait of a Tree, commissioned by David Attenborough, Safari by Balloon, The Year of the Wildebeest and Castles of Clay, which was nominated for an Oscar. Alan has won over sixty awards during his career, including an Emmy, three Lifetime Achievement Awards
AJS Weaving said Fascinating and exciting autobiographical treat. Alan Root certainly got himself into some terrifying scrapes while filming, making this book an exciting read. For anyone interested in wildlife and photography Alan's book is irresistable, especially if the reader is familiar with Africa and its wildlife. It creates a certain nostalgia for the times when equipment was very basic and one had to show some ingenuity to get the results Alan achieved. Perhaps its not so generally known just how many very successful films Alan made. This all comes . john cotter said Alan Root master film maker & writer. Among the many makers of natural history films, the name Alan Root is regarded as nearly "holy". Together with his wife, Joan, these champions among wildlife film producers made the most cinematic, adventuresome, and most popular series of nature movies of their time. They were the groundbreaking team whose films always seemed to win the awards at festivals and praises of critics around the world. Perhaps the pinnacle of the mountain of work they produced was The Year of the Wildebeest, a maje. I love this book!! Kizmet This story is so fun to read! It is very well written and describes amazing places, events and people. I appreciate very much that the dramatic parts are not drawn out, but are no less compelling for the style. Naturalist stories can get kind of boring, but not this one because there is a lot that unfolds in the story that keeps the reader engaged page after page. If I could find 10 books similar to this one and with this style, I'd have my next 10 books to read, that's how entertaining it is!
Alan Root is one of the great wildlife pioneers. His friends and colleagues have included George and Joy Adamson and David Attenborough; he showed Dian Fossey her first mountain gorilla. Along the way we encounter Sally the pet hippo and Emily the house-proud chimp as well leopard and snake bites, ballooning adventures and amphibious cars. In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes of a visionary, live through hair-raising adventure and personal tragedy and also bear witness to a natural world now largely lost from view.. In Ivory, Apes & Peacocks, Alan tells the story of his life's work, from his arrival in Kenya as a young boy (furious at having to leave behind Britain's birds) to his game-changing films, which looked at whole ecosystems (baobab trees, termite mounds) rather than the Big Five animals. His wife and long-term collaborator was Joan Root, who was tragically murdered in 2006 in retaliation for her environmental campaigning in Kenya. He began his career making films for the TV series Survival, which started wildlife film-making as we know it, and is responsible for numerous groundbreaking documentaries and natural history discoveries -- from being the first per
Root is a natural story-teller, roaming East Africa before poachers began to decimate the wildlife. "Written by a consummate wordsmith, Alan Root's enthralling memoir is the best true-life adventure story to come out of Africa for years. Not only are the current generation of wildlife film-makers mere pygmies compared to Root, but soon they will not even be able to attempt matching his documentaries because the world he captured has ceased to exist." -- Aidan Hartley Spectator "If Dame Daphne Sheldrick's touching and romantic Love, Life, and Elephants has been climbing the bestseller lists in Britain and America, Alan Root's Ivory, Apes and Peacocks is by far the deeper and more interesting read. The final chapter, which describes Root's last moments w