About this book
The two-time Pulitzer Prizeāwinning 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. Wilsonāthe world's greatest living biologistāelegantly 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- ALSO BY EDWARD O. WILSON
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Maps
- Contents
- PROLOGUE
- I: FROGMAN
- II: THE CITIZEN OF NOKOBEE
- III: THE LAUNCH
- IV: The Anthill Chronicles
- V: THE ARMENTARIUM
- VI: THE NOKOBEE WARS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
