Anthill Pa

Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the #xE2;#xAC;Sstrange, beautiful, and elegant#xE2;#xAC; world of his native Nokobee County. But as developers begin to threaten the endangered marshlands around which he lives, the book#xE2;#xAC;"s hero decides to take decisive action. Edward O. Wilson#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;the world#xE2;#xAC;"s greatest living biologist#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;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.