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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

Miriam Horn talks with Jack Humphrey, host of Rewilding, on her biography of George Schaller

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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.

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.

Early praise for Homesick for a World Unknown

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I’m deeply honored by these warm responses from writers I admire to the moon!

Homesick for a World Unkown: Available for Pre-Order

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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.

Miriam Horn and George Schaller visit jaguar conservationists in the US-Mexico borderlands

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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.

Miriam Horn in Conversation with George Schaller, Bangalore, India

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The world’s greatest wildlife biologist, George Schaller, in conversation with writer Miriam Horn (biographer) and Ullas Karanth.

On Conserving Common Ground in America’s Divided Heartland

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Miriam Horn has worked at the Environmental Defense Fund since 2004. Her 4th book, Homesick for a World Unknown, is the first full biography of field biologist George Schaller.

Why Big Farmers are Not Always the Bad Guys

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Miriam Horn challenged and brought into question assumptions about how we can save the environment. We so often point to ranchers, farmers and fisherman, the people who cultivate and raise our food, as being the enemy. Miriam discusses how we can find these unlikely allies who could shape the future our world forever and for the better.