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

Advance Praise for Anthill

"Thick with the spell of nature, Anthill is 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

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.