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Anthill is a Southern tale that somehow incorporates a political analysis on environmental preservation, species extinction, and corrupt land developers into a coming-of-age novel. Midway through the book, the reader gets an extensive look at the explosive rise and dismal fall of several ant colonies in the Lake Nokobee forest in Alabama. Wilson has the amazing ability to explain ant colony life as though it's the most fascinating thing you could ever wish to read. Culture, purpose, war, and a dramatic arc fit for Greek tragedy — it's all there. To say that Anthill is an exciting and "human" dissertation on ant life makes it sound much, much less thrilling than it actually is. The story of Raff Cody and his life-long love of nature is sweet, beautiful, frightening, and enlightening. Don't try to understand the seemingly insane charms of this book — just read it!
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Advance Praise for Anthill

"Thick with the spell of nature, Anthillis a powerful tale of ant empires and a boy determined to save them.'--Diane Ackerman, author of The Zookeeper's Wife



Praise for Edward O. Wilson

'Wilson speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all.'--Oliver Sacks

"His style is gracious and lucid, the example of his life greatly inspiring." --Barry Lopez

'Wilson is a writer of enthralling importance for our place in time.'--Edward Hoagland, Los Angeles Times

'There"s a new Darwin. His name is Edward O. Wilson.'--Tom Wolfe

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

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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.
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Regarded as one of the world's preeminent biologists and naturalists, Edward O. Wilson grew up in south Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, where he spent his boyhood exploring the region's forests and swamps, collecting snakes, butterflies, and ants--the latter to become his lifelong specialty. The author of more than twenty books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ants and The Naturalist, as well as his first novel Anthill, Wilson, a professor at Harvard, makes his home in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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sikoya, August 19, 2012 (view all comments by sikoya)
Great book, great writer, great naturalist. I would highly recommend this book. How little ants can change the world of one little boy and one little town.
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Marti, January 5, 2012 (view all comments by Marti)
Truly wonderful book! Loved everything about it....EO Wilson is a great naturalist and this naturalist sensibility played directly into this novel.
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Truly wonderful book! Loved everything about it....EO Wilson is a great naturalist and this naturalist sensibility played directly into this novel.
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ISBN:
9780393339703
Author:
Wilson, Edward Osborne
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W. W. Norton & Company
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Wilson, Edward O.
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Wilson, Edward Osborne
Subject:
Literary
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Literature-A to Z
Publication Date:
20110431
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TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
378
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8.25000 x 5.50000 in
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"Staff Pick" by ,

Anthill is a Southern tale that somehow incorporates a political analysis on environmental preservation, species extinction, and corrupt land developers into a coming-of-age novel. Midway through the book, the reader gets an extensive look at the explosive rise and dismal fall of several ant colonies in the Lake Nokobee forest in Alabama. Wilson has the amazing ability to explain ant colony life as though it's the most fascinating thing you could ever wish to read. Culture, purpose, war, and a dramatic arc fit for Greek tragedy — it's all there. To say that Anthill is an exciting and "human" dissertation on ant life makes it sound much, much less thrilling than it actually is. The story of Raff Cody and his life-long love of nature is sweet, beautiful, frightening, and enlightening. Don't try to understand the seemingly insane charms of this book — just read it!

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