Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller
Seventy years of field work, from mountain gorillas to snow leopards, by the biologist who established that wild animals could be studied by living alongside them.
Schaller spent seventy years in the field, working with mountain gorillas in the Virungas, tigers in India, snow leopards in the Himalaya and antelope on the Tibetan plateau, and did more than any other biologist to establish that wild animals could be studied by living alongside them. Horn’s biography follows a career that reshaped conservation and a temperament suited to enormous solitude.
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