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The Hive - The Story of the Honeybee and Us (Paperback)
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The Hive - The Story of the Honeybee and Us (Paperback)
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List price R648
Loot Price R538
Discovery Miles 5 380
You Save R110 (17%)
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Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed
pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of
the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying.
No other creature has inspired in humans an identification so
passionate, persistent, or fantastical.
"The Hive "recounts the astonishing tale of all the weird and
wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their
"society" over the ages. It ranges from the honey delta of ancient
Egypt to the Tupelo forests of modern Florida, taking in a cast of
characters including Alexander the Great and Napoleon, Sherlock
Holmes and Muhammed Ali.
The history of humans and honeybees is also a history of ideas,
taking us through the evolution of science, religion, and politics,
and a social history that explores the bee's impact on food and
human ritual.
In this beautifully illustrated book, Bee Wilson shows how humans
will always view the hive as a miniature universe with order and
purpose, and look to it to make sense of their own.
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