A review by lizwiz
Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions by Mark W. Moffett

5.0

I loved this book! The author has such enthusiasm for his subject that it is really infectious! I have always been fascinated by bugs and loved studying them, but this book can be interesting to anyone who enjoys the planet they live on. There are some big doses of philosophy in here, he questions our understanding of what an organism is, what a mind is, how we perceive the world around us based on our humanity. And of course there are lots of cool and funny stories about his adventures all over the world studying the ants he writes about. There are a few bits that get overly scientific, but nothing that is too hard to follow. It felt like it was so pointed in one direction (ants) that it illuminated all around it (the world and our thoughts about it). It also had amazing photographs, worth picking up just for those, they were groundbreaking, so much so that National Geographic featured them! So yeah, I loved it!