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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.
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.
John Davis reviews Miriam Horn’s new biography of Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown, for the Rewilding Institute.
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…
Mongabay’s Rhett Ayers Butler reviews Miriam Horn’s new biography of George Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown.
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.
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The first full biography of field biologist George Schaller by Miriam Horn is available for pre-order now from Penguin Press.
In May 2024, just shy of 91, Schaller visited jaguar conservationists working on the border where the New World’s only great cat used to cross freely from Mexico into a range that stretched from California to Texas. I was invited to join by Beth Wald, a photographer who traveled with George many times in central Asia and Latin America; and Turtle Southern, who helped establish the Northern Jaguar Reserve in Sonora, MX and is now with the Rewilding Institute.
The world’s greatest wildlife biologist, George Schaller, in conversation with writer Miriam Horn (biographer) and Ullas Karanth.