Primary Source Materials
Primary Source Materials
This is a selection of original field-drawings, notes and communications taken from George Schaller’s journals and personal archive. Working directly with Schaller, Miriam Horn’s research for Homesick for a World Unknown included unrestricted access to this rich body of material. Horn’s biography of George Schaller will include more materials from his archive.
“Richest of all were the two daily field journals Schaller kept for seventy years—one data, one narrative—recording in real time everything seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt by one of history’s most acute sensoria. It was through this writing, as colleague Jonah Western said, that “George thinks and reveals himself.” As the first to read the more than 20,000 pages, now archived at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, I found “that real poetry,” as Nabokov called it, “with which the lived experience of these receptive, knowledgeable and chaste naturalists endowed their research.”“
—From Homesick for a World Unknown by Miriam Horn