Call of the wild

Call of the wild is one of the most exciting publications on nature conservation of our time. Well-known conservationist and civil engineer Harald Helander wrote his life story as a book at the age of 81. The book has been published in German, Finnish and now in English, too. Harald Helander was born in Helsinki in 1934. His Finnish father was a civil engineer and worked for the government Agency for Maritime Transportation where he was in charge of the lighthouses in Finland. His mother was the youngest daughter of a German merchant family. During the War of Continuation between the USSR and Finland, Harald, as a schoolboy, moved with his parents to Germany, where his father, Ilmari, led construction projects for Finnish wooden houses to alleviate the severe housing shortage of the German population following the ongoing bombardment by the Allies. It was only after fifteen years that Harald Helander returned to his home country to perform his military service. After being assigned