Inside the Mind of Sarah Boon: Unveiling the Untold Struggles Behind a Field Scientist’s Groundbreaking Journey
SB: I really don’t have a lot of heroes – Rachel Carson, for sure, because she was able to write so brilliantly while also being a scientist. I would die to write the way she did and communicate science the way she did. I think I only have one other hero, and that’s Terry Fox. I don’t know if you know about Terry Fox in the States.
HMM: Oh yeah, you wrote about him in your book!
SB: He was in his early twenties and he got cancer and one of his legs was amputated at the knee, and then he started a run across Canada to make money for cancer research, but he only made it to Ontario before he got sick again and died. But he’s one of my heroes because he had so much grit and determination. And he wasn’t thinking about himself, he was thinking about other people, even though it would have been easy to just think about himself and his illness. He was thinking about cancer treatment and other people with cancer and he was out there doing something that he knew might wear him out and might make him more susceptible to the cancer. He’s a hero because of that.
