'He was born out of place: a dreamer and a poet planted in the practical Iowa earth. As unlikely as a rose in a cornfield...he was such a funny little misfit of a child, hemmed in by orderly fields, too often dreaming down those rows of green and gold to the point where they met the rim of the sky.' So begins Deborah Blum's description of Harry Harlow, behaviourist, visionary and subject of the biography 'Love at Goon Park'. Not exactly the dry opening perhaps anticipated in a scientific work, but then, as the book goes on to demonstrate, Harlow was a man who deserved a rather more unusual, lyrical introduction. In a sterile, emotionally stilted period, Harry ...  Read the complete review