How do you write the life of someone who avoided the spotlight? Miriam Horn on her biography of George Schaller
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Some biographies are built around revelation. Others proceed by accumulation, assembling a life from fragments that resist easy interpretation. Miriam Horn’s Homesick for a World Unknown: The Life of George B. Schaller falls into the latter category. It takes as its subject George Schaller, a figure widely regarded as one of the most consequential field […]