Ivory, Apes & Peacocks - Tapa dura

Alan Root's experience of East African wildlife and appetite for risk have made him a world-class naturalist and film-maker. In "Ivory, Apes & Peacocks", he tells the story of his life's work, from his arrival in Kenya as a boy to the making of his extraordinary films. These looked in detail at whole ecosystems: baobab trees, termite mounds, and natural springs, and involved firsts such as tracking the wildebeest migration from a balloon, filming inside a hornbill s nest and diving with hippos and crocodiles. Along the way we watch as Dian Fossey catches sight of her first mountain gorilla and have sundowners with George and Joy Adamson. And here, too, is Joan Root, Alan's wife and collaborator for over thirty years, who was murdered in retaliation for her environmental campaigning.