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He describes himself as “a 19th-century wanderer with a scientific bent”. Better known as the greatest living field biologist, George Schaller earned his reputation through painstaking studies of mammals all over the world, from the Himalayas to the Amazon rainforest. He has spent most of his professional life in the field, often living in tents or cabins with his family. His penchant for rare and remote species has taken him in pursuit of gorillas, tigers, giant pandas and blue sheep, and has seen him immortalised in Peter Matthiessen’s best-selling book The Snow Leopard. He has helped establish some of…