Homesick for a World Unknown
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.
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…
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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.
This is a selection of original field-drawings, notes and communications taken from George Schaller’s journals and personal archive.
Miriam Horn introduces her new book Homesick for a World Unknown and her fascination with field biologist George Schaller.
The first full biography of field biologist George Schaller, forthcoming 4/21/2026 from Penguin Press by Miriam Horn.