Anthill: A Novel

Name: Anthill: A Novel
Rating: 3.6666667461395264 (3 reviews)

Edward O. Wilson

Apr 2011 · W. W. Norton & Company

3.7

3 reviews

Ebook

336

Pages

About this ebook

The two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist delivers "an astonishing literary achievement" (Anthony Gottlieb, The Economist).

Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of his native Nokobee County. But as developers begin to threaten the endangered marshlands around which he lives, the book’s hero decides to take decisive action. Edward O. Wilson—the world’s greatest living biologist—elegantly balances glimpses of science with the gripping saga of a boy determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: man himself.

Ratings and reviews

3.7

3 reviews

Nicky

January 4, 2017

Superb exploration of the parallels between ants and humans. Very well written and interesting story about environmental attitudes. Comes extremely recommended.

About the author

Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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