What It’s Like to Be a Panda; Maria Popova on Homesick for a World Unknown
National Geographic put Schaller’s first-in-the-world pictures of pandas in the wild on the cover in December 1981.
“…a scientist as original and unrelenting in his own quest [as Stephen Hawking] … considered by many the most effective conservationist of the past century, George Schaller — the first researcher to walk among wild gorillas unarmed and be rewarded with unprecedented insight into their universe, the first to take a photograph of the elusive snow leopard, rigorous and sensitive biographer of the lives of species as varied as the African lion and the Tibetan antelope, [is] now himself the subject of Miriam Horn’s rigorous and sensitive biography Homesick for a World Unknown
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