Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration.

WILSON, Edward O. & Bert Holldobler.

Item Number: 4259

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press/ Harvard, 1994.

First edition. Quarto, original cloth. Signed by Edward O. Wilson on the title page, who has also drawn an ant. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement. "Hölldobler and Wilson have carefully distilled more than 80 years of their combined personal research and thorough knowledge of the literature to produce a book that is both packed with ideas and information and a joy to read. The authors subtitled their book 'A Story of Scientific Exploration' and, like all good stories, it has a logical progression and sensible themes and is hard to put down" (C. Ronald Carroll American Scientist).