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Root, Joan

LC control no.n 83039897
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingRoot, Joan
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Variant(s)Thorpe, Joan Wells
Associated countryKenya
Birth date1936
Death date2006-01-12
Place of deathNaivasha (Kenya)
Field of activityWildlife conservation
Found inHer The four little pigs, 1970: t.p. (Joan Root)
Data from Benchmark Films for Lights, action, Africa! [MP] 1983 (a.e.) (Joan Root; Nairobi, Kenya)
Times online WWW site, Jan. 13, 2006 (Joan Wells Root, aged 69; killed early this morning at her farmhouse on the shores of Lake Naivasha, about 90 km northwest of Nairobi; pioneering British wildlife film-maker and conservationist); Jan. 19, 2006 (b. Joan Wells Thorpe, 1936, Kenya; d. Jan. 12, 2006)
New York times WWW site, Jan. 17, 2006 (Joan Root; b. Joan Thorpe, Nairobi; killed Friday [Jan. 13, 2006], Naivasha, Kenya, aged 69; animal lover and conservationist who collaborated with her husband, Alan Root, on a series of wildlife documentaries in the 1970s)
Not found inWW, 1982; BNB, 1980-81; WW Brit. sci., 1971/72.
Associated languageeng