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Wildflower is a reallife adventure tale set in the worlds fastdisappearing wilderness. Mark seal captures the essence of a shy and introverted girl, for a time obscured by her flamboyant husband, who remains a strong and resolute woman, until her untimely death. I n wildflower, veteran journalist mark seal tells of the extraordinary life and untimely death in africa of oscarnominated pioneering wildlife filmmaker and indomitable conservationist joan root. After decades spent helping kenyas poor and needy, she was tragically murdered in january 2006 at age sixtynine in her home bordering kenyas lake naivasha, probably because of her. Seal worked as a journalist in texas before becoming a freelance magazine writer in 1984, a contributing editor at vanity fair since 2003, and has written and cowritten about 15 books. Most american readers have not been to africa, except via wildlife documentaries, such as the ones produced by alan and joan root in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Currently a contributing editor at vanity fair, he has written for many major magazines and served as a collaborator on almost twenty nonfiction books. The wildflower, joan root, herself beautiful as a hollywood heroine, helped produce groundbreaking documentaries like the year of the wildebeest and mysterious castles of clay a 1978 oscar nominee in the.
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Jun 20, 2012 journalist mark seal reported on the remarkable life and violent death of naturalist joan root in a 2006 vanity fair article, but quickly realized that a magazine piece could not do justice to her story. A journalist for thirtyfive years, mark seal is a contributing editor at vanity fair and the author of wildflower. Jul 02, 2009 mark seal captures the essence of a shy and introverted girl, for a time obscured by her flamboyant husband, who remains a strong and resolute woman, until her untimely death. Mark seal has been a journalist for more than thirty years.