A few weeks ago, Roni Horn, 70, was removed from her flight, just before takeoff from the US to Germany. A male steward was so irritated when he asked her to adjust her seat – and she politely refused to move it any further, since it was already as upright as she could get it…
biography Homesick for a World Unknown by Miriam Horn In her engaging, lyrical book, Horn tells the story of the famed naturalist George Schaller, who went to the Belgian Congo in 1959 to study mountain gorillas. (He would go on to work with other animals, including Brazilian jaguars, Indian tigers and Serengeti lions.) Schaller, Horn…
As Miriam Horn writes in her engaging, often lyrical account of his life, “Homesick for a World Unknown,” Schaller “transformed scientific practice,” achieving an extraordinary intimacy with his animal subjects by “assimilating to their rhythms and rules, endeavoring to see the universe through their eyes.” He also became a relentless advocate for conservation, fighting to…
