| Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa |
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By Mark Seal
(as reviewed recently on NPR--listen to interview)
Wildflower
is a compelling work of narrative nonfiction in which the shocking
death of a dedicated environmentalist becomes a broader story of a
beautiful, breathtaking country in peril.
In January 2006, Joan Root, a sixty-nine-year-old naturalist, Oscar-nominated wildlife filmmaker, and staunch conservationist, was murdered by two masked men armed with an AK-47 shortly after midnight in her bedroom on the shore of Kenya's beautiful Lake Naivasha. |
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