Homesick for a World Unknown
“…a scientist as original and unrelenting in his own quest [as Stephen Hawking] … considered by many the most effective conservationist of the past century”
In her meticulously researched, gripping biography, Horn conveys how Schaller’s work in the Congo revolutionized our understanding of gorillas and, more broadly, of methodology for ethological field work.
The first scientist to perform detailed, sustained field studies of once-inaccessible animals in the wild, from Serengeti lions to mountain gorillas, Schaller revealed the lives of creatures long thought monstrous or mysterious.
“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.
“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…
Pioneer Works Broadcast publishes an excerpt from Miriam Horn’s biography of George Schaller, Homesick for a World Unknown.
Mongabay Editor Rhett Butler interviews Miriam Horn on Homesick for a World Unknown, her new biography of George Schaller
“The Most Influential Wildlife Conservationists You’ve Never Heard Of: George and Kay Schaller’s Groundbreaking Life by Biographer Miriam Horn The Schallers’ legacy is intimately detailed through Horn’s wonderful storytelling … how they pioneered the fieldwork of living peacefully amongst large wild animals like snow leopards, gorillas, lions, tigers, jaguars, giant pandas, Tibetan antelope, Marco Polo…
George Schaller is widely regarded as a founder of modern field biology — a scientist whose work helped transform how we study animals in the wild. From gorillas in the Congo to snow leopards in the Himalayas, his research has shaped conservation for decades. This week, WCS Wild Audio caught up with author Miriam Horn…
Horn recounts the extraordinary life and work of George B. Schaller, who studied and saved more charismatic megafauna than anyone before or since.
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