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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.

Miriam Horn in conversation with Mongabay editor Rhett Butler, on writing Homesick for a World Unknown, her biography of George Schaller

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Mongabay Editor Rhett Butler interviews Miriam Horn on Homesick for a World Unknown, her new biography of George Schaller

Miriam Horn and Joe Walston, Executive VP of Global Conservation for the Wildlife Conservation Society, write in PBS NATURE on the path forward mapped by the life of George Schaller

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Miriam Horn and Joe Walston on how George Schaller saved our biggest, most dangerous and charismatic wild animals, and showed us how to save many more

Excerpt from Homesick for a World Unknown in Pioneer Works Broadcast

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Pioneer Works Broadcast publishes an excerpt from Miriam Horn’s biography of George Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown.

Miriam Horn – George Schaller and the Transformation of Wildlife Biology

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Miriam Horn joins Ed Roberson on the Mountain Prairie podcast to talk about her biography of George Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown.

“Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller” with Miriam Horn

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Miriam Horn joins the Rewilding podcast. Miriam has spent her career splitting time between the U.S. Forest Service, Environmental Defense Fund, and the high-level editorial worlds of Vanity Fair and The New York Times.

“If there’s a pantheon of wildlife heroes, George Schaller is surely in it”

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John Davis reviews Miriam Horn’s new biography of Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown, for the Rewilding Institute.

“A Magnificent Tribute” Science Magazine Review

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In her meticulously researched, gripping biography, Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller, Miriam Horn conveys how Schaller’s work in the Congo revolutionized our understanding of gorillas and, more broadly, of methodology for ethological field work. Far from the brutal aggressors of popular stereotype, gorillas acted as family-oriented apes with an…

George Schaller: The field biologist who helped redefine conservation

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Mongabay’s Rhett Ayers Butler reviews Miriam Horn’s new biography of George Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown.

Book Tour Announced: Homesick for a World Unknown

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Miriam Horn will be appearing at these events to discuss her book Homesick for a World Unknown. If you are interested in having Miriam attend your event please get in touch using the details on the Contact page.