Bees and Their Keepers - In religion, revolution and evolution

Zusatztext An entertaining collation of bee trivia across the millennia Informationen zum Autor FRANK PERRY's translations have won the Swedish Academy Prize for the introduction of Swedish literature abroad and the prize of the Writer's Guild of Sweden for drama translation. His translation of Lina Wolff's Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs was the 2017 winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, and was awarded the triennial Bernard Shaw Prize for best literary translation from Swedish. Lotte Möller is a Swedish writer and journalist, and author of a number of classics in cultural and garden literature including a monograph on the lemon, which was shortlisted for the August Prize for Best Non-Fiction. She has also been a beekeeper. Klappentext With deep knowledge and a sharp wit, Lotte Möller 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 Möller 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 Læso and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond. Bees and Their Keepers is a beautifully illustrated and compelling cultural history for the beekeeper and general reader alike.Translated from the Swedish by Frank Perry A beautifully illustrated and compelling cultural history for the beekeeper and general reader Zusammenfassung A beautifully illustrated and compelling cultural history for the beekeeper and general reader...

Product details

• Authors: Lotte ller, M@00000041@#246, Lotte Moeller, Lotte Moller, Lotte Möller, Frank Perry
• Assisted by: Frank Perry (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781529405262
• ISBN: 978-1-5294-0526-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Planet Omar
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Beekeeping, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / General, ART / History / General, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PETS / Insects & Spiders, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Wildlife: general interest, Conservation of the environment, Animal Ecology, Wildlife: butterflies, other insects & spiders, Insects & spiders as pets, History of art: ancient & classical art,BCE to c 500 CE