Homesick for A World Unknown

Join author and environmental thinker Miriam Horn in conversation with anthropologist Cari Borja.

Horn’s newest work, Homesick for a World Unknown, is a deeply human portrait of legendary field biologist George B. Schaller, a man who spent over seventy years living among the world’s most elusive and endangered animals, forever reshaping how we see and protect the natural world. From his early, radical immersion among mountain gorillas in the Belgian Congo to his groundbreaking studies of tigers, lions, pandas, and snow leopards, Schaller’s life invites us to reconsider the boundaries between human and animal, participant and observer, exile and belonging.

But this conversation will move beyond a single life. Together, Horn and Borja will explore the deeper narrative arc of Horn’s work, from political rebellion and female activism in Rebels in White Gloves, to climate futurism in Earth: The Sequel, to the fragile, interdependent ecosystems of Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman. Across these works, Horn has traced a singular question: how do humans learn to live responsibly within systems larger than themselves?

Copies of Homesick for a World Unknown are available for purchase in advance with your ticket.

Miriam Horn is a bestselling author, environmental advocate, journalist, and filmmaker. Her previous books include Rebels in White Gloves, Earth: The Sequel (coauthor), and Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman. She has produced two documentary films, with one premiering at Sundance. Before turning to books, Horn worked at the Environmental Defense Fund and the US Forest Service, and wrote for magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times. She lives in Colorado in the South San Juan Mountains.

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