Dusty Feathers and Unlikely Fingers

Alan Root was one of the great wildlife film-making pioneers. His unmatched experience of East African wildlife and appetite for risk made him a world-class naturalist and filmmaker.

"Dusty Feathers and Unlikely Fingers" is an updated version of Alan's 2012 autobiography "Ivory, Apes & Peacocks". Alan enhanced and finalized his story in 2017 prior to his death. Additional photographs and film clips are included in this story of his life's work; from his arrival in Kenya as a young boy to the making of his game-changing films.

In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes of a visionary, we live through hair-raising adventure and personal sorrow, and also bear witness to a natural world now largely lost from view.