Leiningen Vs. the Ants

A translation, probably by Stephenson himself, of Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen which was originally published in German in 1937.

The story centers on a scrappy, no-nonsense plantation owner called Leiningen (his first name is never mentioned in the story), and his stubborn refusal to abandon his plantation in the face of a seemingly unstoppable mass of army ants, described as an elemental—an act of God!

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