Reviews

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…