The New York Times names Homesick for a World Unknown one of “6 New Books We Love This Week”
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Homesick for a World Unknown by Miriam Horn is selected by The New York Times for their list of 6 books recommended by their critics and editors.
“In her engaging, lyrical book, Horn tells the story of the famed naturalist George Schaller, who went to the Belgian Congo in 1959 to study mountain gorillas. (He would go on to work with other animals, including Brazilian jaguars, Indian tigers and Serengeti lions.) Schaller, Horn writes, “transformed scientific practice,” achieving an extraordinary intimacy with his animal subjects by “assimilating to their rhythms and rules, endeavoring to see the universe through their eyes.””
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