Life in the Colonies
Steven Rose, 20 July 1995
Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration
by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O.Wilson.
Harvard, 228 pp., £19.95, November 1994,0 674 48525 4 Show More
by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O.Wilson.
Harvard, 228 pp., £19.95, November 1994,
“... or Vindaloo. Something of the same determinedly trivial desire to prove himself is revealed in Edward Wilson’s Naturalist. The great myrmecologist’s memoir is filled with references to scaling the highest mountains, collecting the most species, and above all to standing where no (white) man had ever stood before, finding organisms hitherto ‘unknown ... ”
