# Ivory, Apes & Peacocks

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- Authors: [Alan Root](https://www.bookquiver.com/alan-root)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-09-05

## Description

Alan 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. Ivory, Apes & Peacocks 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. In 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.

## Editions

### Ivory, Apes & Peacocks

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-588-9
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2013-09-05
- Language: en_GB