Adventures Among Ants

Think you know about ants?  Think again, and take it from Mark W. Moffett, who has travelled all over the world to study them. Ants seem to live in a parallel university to our own, one rife with warfare, terrorism, traffic jams, and highway infrastructure. A stimulating read, with stunning photography.—Bernd Heinrich, author of Mind of the Raven

I love this book. Mark Moffett’s excitement and joy will affect anyone willing to take a dive into a bizarre world. I will never intentionally step on another ant—perhaps out of a new love, respect, or fear. Adventures Among Ants will grow on you rather than swarm up your leg.—Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate in chemistry and author of Dancing Naked in the Mind Field

The book will return you to the magic you knew as a child, when you watched a tiny parade of creatures and understood: here, too, is life. Here you will find a parallel universe of mysterious, alien creatures silently emerging from and returning to their dark and magical queendoms.—Dale Peterson, author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man

Mark has been described as ‘the Jane Goodall of ants.’ Certainly Adventures Among Ants, with its detailed account of his fieldwork, makes an invaluable contribution to our scientific knowledge of these creatures. But it does more. It is so will written and captures his excitement so wonderfully that it will bring this wealth of information to a far wider audience. I was fascinated with ants when I was a child—how I wish this book had been available to me then.—Jane Goodall

Adventures Among Ants combines brilliant portraits of six species with thought-provoking lessons about the nature of social evolution—Richard Wrangham, author of The Goodness Paradox  and Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human 

Adventures Among Ants is packed with graphic enthusiasm [and] provocative thoughts… Moffett writes with an entertainer’s instinct for hooking a restless audience. Luckily our voyeurism about the gory, pitiless world of insects is also his.—The New York Times

Take a look at daring eco-adventurer Mark Moffett’s spectacular new ant book, Adventures Among Ants.—Margaret Atwood, New York Review of Books