Bees and Their Keepers - From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh (Hardcover)

A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. "A charming look at the history of beekeeping, from myth and folklore to our practical relationship with bees" Gardens Illustrated "An entertaining collation of bee trivia across the millennia" Daily Telegraph * Sweden's Gardening Book of the Year 2019 * Shortlisted for the August Prize 2019 * Winner of the Swedish Book Design Award for 2019 Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Moeller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and habits. With a light touch she uses her encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject to shed light on humanity's understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present. A humorous debunking of the myths that have held for centuries is matched by a wry exploration of how and when they were replaced by fact. In her travels Moeller encounters a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring beekeepers on the Danish island of Laeso, and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond, as well a host of others as passionate as she about the complex world of apiculture both past and present. Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry

General

Imprint:	MacLehose Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2020
First published:	2020
Translators:	Frank Perry
Authors:	Lotte Moeller
Dimensions:	230 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-5294-0526-2
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal ecology Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Animal husbandry > Apiculture (beekeeping) Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Domestic animals & pets > Insects as pets Books > Sport & Leisure > Natural history, country life & pets > Wild animals > Insects & spiders > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	1-5294-0526-2
Barcode:	9781529405262

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