Gee Luddy, it was 1976 or there about, how good a memory do you think an old fart has?

It was written by an entomologist, but not all his own work. It was a study of about 15 types of ants, their different social structures, nesting techniques & foods. It ranged from army ants to leafcutters to some very small types that have basically moved in with us.

I had always thought that an ant was an ant, some larger, & some with a bigger bite, but basically the same. This told me otherwise, & made me wonder how they studies some of them.

There was a convention with cruising yachts & book swaps. Long ocean passages can get boring, so we would swap books we had read whenever we met another boat. You wrote in the fly leaf the yacht you got it from, & where the swap occurred. That book was on it's third circumnavigation of the world when I got it