{"product_id":"ivory-apes-peacocks-9780099555889","title":"Ivory Apes  Peacocks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlan Root is one of the great wildlife pioneers. His unmatched experience of East African wildlife and his appetite for risk have made him a world-class naturalist and film-maker. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIvory, Apes \u0026amp; Peacocks\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of his life's work, from his arrival in Kenya as a young boy to the making of his game-changing films. From a hot-air balloon Alan was the first to track the wildebeest migration; then he flew it over Kilimanjaro. He filmed inside a termite mound and dived with hippos and crocodiles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes of a visionary, live through hair-raising adventure and personal sorrow, and also bear witness to a natural world now largely lost from view.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten by a consummate wordsmith, Alan Root’s enthralling memoir is the best true-life adventure story to come out of Africa for years. The final chapter, which describes Root’s last moments with Joan, I found almost too painful to read (5 star review) -- Brian Jackman * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an entrancing book. Root is a natural story-teller, roaming East Africa before poachers began to decimate the wildlife. Against the staggering backdrop of East Africa’s landscape and wildlife, the darkness of its problems casts a growing shadow over this book... Luckily, Alan Root’s wonderful films remain, a testimony to the man of whom David Attenborough once said: ‘He made wild-life films grow up' * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eIn a riveting memoir, Root offers far more than a few well-work anecdotes of cute, hand-reared animals who like to sit down to breakfast with you and curl up on the sofa after dinner...a truly compelling book, savage and sparkling by turns -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eRoot is aware that his magical life has ‘run parallel with a heartbreaking holocaust, as wildlife conservation has proved to be a disastrous failure’. This wonderful book can’t put it more honestly than that. 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 *\u003cbr\u003eIf Dame Daphne Sheldrick’s touching and romantic \u003ci\u003eLove, Life, and Elephants\u003c\/i\u003e has been climbing the bestseller lists in Britain and America, Alan Root’s \u003ci\u003eIvory, Apes and Peacocks\u003c\/i\u003e is by far the deeper and more interesting read. The problems that beset Africa’s wildlife - population pressures, poaching, drought and disease - are all part of this story, though balanced here by Mr Root’s sense of fun and adventure * The Economist *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017527525719,"sku":"9780099555889","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099555889.jpg?v=1750773837","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ivory-apes-peacocks-9780099555889","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}