Bees and Their Keepers

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

Translator: Frank Perry

Author: Lotte Möller

Read by: Julie Maisey

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Digital Audiobook

Duration
04:13.15

Published: 17th September 2020

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With deep knowledge and a sharp wit, Lotte Moller unfolds our understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present.

A beekeeper herself, she gives insight into the activity in the hive and describes the bees' natural order and habits. She explores the myths of the past, and how and when they were replaced by fact. For example, the heated discussions that broke out in the eighteenth century when it was discovered that the hive was ruled by a queen, not a king as had been the belief since Aristotle.

In her travels Moller encounters a host of colourful characters, from a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, to the warring beekeepers on the island of Laeso and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond.

Bees and Their Keepers is a compelling cultural history for the beekeeper and general reader alike.

Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry

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