Reviews
“How can we live alongside animals in the 21st century?” Miriam Horn makes a convincing case that we should listen to the pioneering zoologist George Schaller.
“a book that is expansive without being intrusive, admiring without being reverential, and alert to ambiguity even when recounting an extraordinary career.”
“Schaller was years ahead of his time … While most other 20th-century scientists viewed non-human species as devoid of feeling or complexity, Schaller was convinced that animals possessed inner lives much like our own and [that] the surest path to discovering these hidden worlds was to meet animals on their own terms. His research laid…
As much an explorer as a biologist, floating wild Alaskan streams, hiking Central African volcanoes and Himalayan peaks, living in a tent in icy Chinese cloud forests, his courage and endurance are legend.
John Davis reviews Miriam Horn’s new biography of Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown, for the Rewilding Institute.
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