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Wildflower: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Murder of Joan Root

Autor Mark Seal
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2011

O siluetă singuratică veghează malurile lacului Naivasha, acolo unde apele Kenyei ascund deopotrivă o frumusețe hipnotică și o corupție letală. Într-o noapte violentă, viața acestei femei — un simbol al conservării mediului — a fost curmată brutal, lăsând în urmă o întrebare care bântuie și astăzi savana africană: cine a dorit moartea lui Joan Root? Credem că Wildflower nu este doar o biografie, ci un portret cinematic al unei transformări interioare profunde, de la tânăra care filma natura din umbra soțului ei, Alan Root, la activista neînfricată care a înfruntat braconierii și interesele obscure ale industriei locale.

Remarcăm măiestria cu care Mark Seal reconstruiește această existență spectaculoasă. Autorul, cunoscut pentru investigația sa fascinantă din The Man in the Rockefeller Suit, își mută aici atenția de la impostură la integritate absolută. Dacă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli, Seal explora culisele dramatice ale cinematografiei, în Wildflower el documentează o viață care bate orice scenariu de film. Stilul narativ este alert, împletind aventura africană cu rigoarea jurnalismului de la Vanity Fair.

În aceeași familie cu Born Wild de Tony Fitzjohn, acest volum adaugă o dimensiune tragică de crimă reală și o perspectivă feminină vulnerabilă, dar puternică. În timp ce Fitzjohn se concentrează pe frontul salvării leilor, Mark Seal explorează prețul personal plătit pentru dragostea față de o natură care dispare. Putem afirma că lectura oferă o experiență intensă, un amestec de nostalgie pentru Africa de altădată și tensiunea unui roman polițist în care miza este însăși supraviețuirea unui ecosistem.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780753828809
ISBN-10: 0753828804
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 130 x 196 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Orion Publishing Group
Colecția W&N
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de biografii feminine puternice și de istoria conservării naturii. Este o lectură esențială pentru cei care vor să înțeleagă complexitatea Africii moderne, dincolo de clișeele turistice. Veți descoperi povestea unei femei care și-a găsit vocea și curajul de a lupta singură împotriva unui sistem corupt, plătind prețul suprem pentru convingerile sale.


Despre autor

Mark Seal este un jurnalist american de renume, cu o carieră de peste trei decenii, fiind în prezent editor colaborator la celebra revistă Vanity Fair. A semnat peste 1.000 de articole în publicații prestigioase precum Rolling Stone și Esquire, fiind nominalizat la National Magazine Award. Specializat în non-ficțiune narativă, Seal este autorul bestsellerului The Man in the Rockefeller Suit și a colaborat la numeroase proiecte editoriale și scenarii premiate. Experiența sa în investigații complexe îi permite să abordeze viața lui Joan Root cu un amestec rar de sensibilitate și rigoare documentară.


Descriere

A compelling story of African adventure, romance and intrigue, perfect for readers of bestselling true crime such as WHITE MISCHIEF and MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL.

WILDFLOWER is the gripping life story of the naturalist, filmmaker and lifelong conservationist Joan Root. From her passion for animals and her hard-fought crusade to save Kenya's beautiful Lake Naivasha, to her storybook love affair, Root's life was one of a remarkable modern-day heroine. After 20 years of spectacular, unparalleled wildlife filmmaking together, Joan and Alan Root divorced and a fascinating woman found her own voice. Renowned journalist Mark Seal has written a breathtaking portrait of a strong woman discovering herself and fighting for her beliefs before her mysterious and brutal murder in Kenya.

With a cast as wild, wondrous and unpredictable as Africa itself, WILDFLOWER is a real-life adventure tale set in the world's disappearing wilderness. Rife with personal revelation, intrigue, corruption and murder, readers will remember Joan Root's extraordinary journey long after they turn the last page of this compelling book.

Recenzii

A real crime book that is also a splendid biography, this is a poignant and gripping tale.

Notă biografică

Mark Seal has been a journalist for more than thirty years. Currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, he has written for many major magazines and served as a collaborator on almost twenty nonfiction books. Although he has written thousands of stories, Seal says none has struck a chord with readers more than the story of the incredible life and brutal death of Joan Root, which he originally reported in the August 2006 issue of Vanity Fair. He lives in Aspen, Colorado.


From the Hardcover edition.

Extras

PREFACE


She always knew he would come back to her.
He would climb into his helicopter at first light one Nairobi morning
and rise above the screaming madhouse of the city, tilting west over
East Africa’s largest slum, and flying out into wonder: out over the
Great Rift Valley, the cradle of civilization, a three- thousand- mile- long
seam in the earth that stretches from Syria to Mozambique but is at its
most glorious here in Kenya. As the floor of the world dropped away,
opening into endless sky and a breathtaking vista, he would follow this
corridor straight back to her.

There were things she longed to tell him, things only he would understand.
Everything she’d been too shy and self- effacing to say before
would now come pouring out, just as it had in all of the letters she had
written him, letters she never sent:

A lifetime has passed since we split, and yet some memories of
things we did together seem [as if they happened] only the other
day. There is so much I would like to say and share with you—now
I know I am not inferior to you.


She waited for him in her blue house beside the lake, which looked
so perfect and placid from the air. But this was merely another extreme
in a country where great beauty coexists with unimaginable brutality,
where the border between life and death is the thinnest of lines, where
nothing is ever as it seems.

Now in contact with others, I realize how knowledgeable I am
about the natural world. . . . People respect me nowadays. But the
only love of my life is one of the few people I cannot communicate
with, even as a friend.


She could leave all that pain behind as soon as he came back into her
life. Flying over the mountains and dormant volcanoes that form a natural
amphitheater around the lake, he would hover over the emeraldgreen
water, taking in its wide, verdant, wildlife- infested expanse.

When you flew over and saw the blue house you were probably
happy you didn’t live here anymore, but I am really such a different
person, I hardly know myself. I have written you so many letters in
my head but when I try to write I go to pieces.

She imagined him buzzing the house, as playfully as he always had,
then touching down on the grass landing strip and stepping out, as if
returning from only a brief safari instead of half a lifetime. Then at last
she would impress him with her independence and accomplishments
and show him the abiding endurance of her love.

Finally, he did come back to her, flying in with the dawn on January
13, 2006. It was not, however, as she had dreamed for so long. He
hadn’t come to reunite with the woman who had once been his wife,
partner, and best friend, the woman he’d left to live alone in Africa for
sixteen years.

He had come to collect her remains.


From the Hardcover edition.