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

Lotte Moller

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History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 5, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE , Natural history, Wildlife: general interest, Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders, Insects & spiders as pets

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MacLehose Press
- Hardback Sep 29, 2020 | 9781529405262 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 17, 2020 | 9781529411294 | RRP $35.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 17, 2020 | 9781529405255 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
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- Hardback Sep 29, 2020 | 9781529405262 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
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- Hardback Sep 29, 2020 | 9781529405262 | RRP $45.00 Buy Now
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- e-Book Sep 17, 2020 | 9781529405255 | RRP $19.99 Buy Now
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A beautifully illustrated and compelling cultural history for the beekeeper and general reader

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 Moller 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 Moller encounters a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring beekeepers on the Danish island of L so, 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

Praise for Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh

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
Well-illustrated, fascinating and informative . . . Her knowledge is encyclopedic and scholarly and the complex nature of apiculture past and present is conveyed factually but in a lively anecdotal style that employs humour to great effect. - Irish Times
Moller has a strong voice, charming, funny and authoritative; so even if bees and honey really aren't your thing, it's still a pleasure to be in her company - Fortean Times
Bee keeper and garden historian Lotte Moller explores our bond with bees, meeting people who are immersed in
apiculture all over the world. Beautifully illustrated and written with humour, - Garden Answers Magazine
I begin to yearn for bees of my own while reading this . . . Moller has done her research well and there is a swarm of quotes, character introductions, fact boxes and thematic strokes . . . The book is actually a history of ideas about bees, filled to the brim with thoughts and notions about man's best friend - on six legs. - Arbeterbladet
Educational and entertaining, it adds insight to how humans throughout time have co-existed with bees and it also puts the present in relief against this history spanning several thousand years . . . The book becomes solace against escalating climate angst, the inability to act, and apathy - because from history's swarm of bee-keepers emerges a strong counter-movement: an embryo of hope for the future of mankind and the planet. - Vasterbottens-Kuriren
In her wonderful bee book, Lotte Moller describes how humans and bees have accompanied each other throughout history, and tells us about her own bees (which initially she feared), honey frauds, hive models, bee sex, and today's complex bee world. Beautiful, readable and bee supportive. - Allt om Tradgard