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George Schaller may be the reason mountain gorillas, Bengal tigers, and giant pandas still exist in the wild. Considered the father of modern field biology, he trained Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, worked in 32 countries, and sounded the alarm on the “great dying” of the natural world decades before anyone was listening. Yet almost no one knows his name.
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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.
Bozeman resident and world-renowned wildlife biologist Dale Miquelle, who led the longest-running field study on endangered Siberian tigers, commended Horn’s reporting, which involved combing through more than 20,000 pages of field notes and shelves of photo albums, and going into the field with Schaller twice.
“Homesick for A World Unknown” a Wall Street Journal Editor’s Choice
In her meticulously researched, gripping biography, Horn conveys how Schaller’s work in the Congo revolutionized our understanding of gorillas and, more broadly, of methodology for ethological field work.
“a book that is expansive without being intrusive, admiring without being reverential, and alert to ambiguity even when recounting an extraordinary career.”
Pioneer Works Broadcast publishes an excerpt from Miriam Horn’s biography of George Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown.
Mongabay Editor Rhett Butler interviews Miriam Horn on Homesick for a World Unknown, her new biography of George Schaller