Homesick for a World Unknown is the first biography of George Schaller, the pre-eminent field biologist of the past century, who remade our understanding of animals and saved more wild landscapes and wild creatures than anyone before or since. Available now for pre-order.
Homesick for a World Unknown is the first biography of George Schaller, the pre-eminent field biologist of the past century, who remade our understanding of animals and saved more wild landscapes and wild creatures than anyone before or since. Available now for pre-order.

“George Schaller seems to have met, and understood, every animal on earth, from Serengeti lions to South American jaguars to Tibetan brown bears. As notable for his foundational texts as for his unorthodox methods, Schaller could lasso an anaconda and mesmerize a panda. (Then there were the unusual pets, the lion cub, warthog, sand boa, and mongoose among them). First in the field, Schaller was the last of his kind; Miriam Horn makes us homesick for his brand of immersive adventure in this splendid, gracefully written biography.”
—Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Revolutionary

Books by Miriam Horn

Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman
From a fourth-generation Montana cowboy protecting grizzlies and wolves to a commercial fisherman restoring the wild bounty of the Gulf of Mexico, a window onto the deeply conservative roots of conservation. Also a Sundance film.
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Earth: The Sequel
Portraits of the entrepreneurs inventing the next generation of clean energy technologies and reaping the 21st century’s greatest economic opportunity. A New York Times bestseller and Discovery documentary.
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Rebels in White Gloves
The 400 women who graduated with Hillary Clinton trod every path imaginable, becoming the first women in their law and medical schools, Buddhist nuns, activists wanted by the FBI, and stay-at-home moms.
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George Schaller's Legacy

People
Three generations of scientists, many of whom now lead research and conservation across China, India, Pakistan, Mongolia, Iran and Brazil, got their first field experience alongside Schaller.
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Places
Schaller worked in 32 countries but dedicated himself above all to the wilds of Asia, rich in biodiversity but least attended to by Western science.
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Wildlife
Over six decades, Schaller made the first field studies and championed conservation of the world’s most charismatic mammals. Many survive only thanks to his work.
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About Miriam Horn

Photo © Ahna Tessler
Miriam Horn has lived her life between two worlds: coastal cities and the remote mountain west; conservation work with the US Forest Service and Environmental Defense Fund, and life as a writer and filmmaker.
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