About the book: 1989 / "The Gold of the Ants" is another book by the famous French ethnographer and tireless traveler Michel Pessel. This time he went to one of the most inaccessible areas of the planet - the Himalayas - in search of the legendary “Country of Dards”. “The Father of History,” Herodotus, reported that in this fabulously rich country, the precious metal is mined from the ground by giant ants—“larger than a fox, but smaller than a dog.” Pessel manages to solve this riddle that has tormented many scientists, but perhaps more important is the material he accumulated during the expedition about the Minaro people - the ancient inhabitants of the Himalayas. For a wide range of readers.