Stephen Buchmann is an amateur beekeeper, associate professor of entomology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, author of The Forgotten Pollinators, and founder of The Bee Works, an environmental company.
Banning Repplier is a writer who lives in New York City.
"A highly entertaining and informative introduction to the world of
the bee."
--Publishers Weekly
"Stephen Buchmann's Letters from the Hive is a
fascinating and lovingly informative account of one of humanity's
greatest accomplishments, our symbiosis with the honey bees."
--Edward O. Wilson, Pulizer Prizewinning author of On Human
Nature, and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University:
"Letters from the Hive is the engrossing story of our long
and richly layered relationship with bees. It reminds us of the
fragile interconnections between all the creatures on this
earth."
--Alice Waters, Owner, Chez Panisse Restaurant "Letters from the
Hive is really an extended love-letter--a charming,
enthralling, and deeply authoritative window into the sweet,
age-old affair between humans and the honey-makers. From the
seasons of the hive to the history, properties, and diversity of
honey, Buchmann brings us into the confidence of the bees as only
he could possibly do."
--Robert Michael Pyle, author of Chasing Monarchs: Migrating
With the Butterflies of Passage. "Stephen Buchmann has done
more to advance the conservation of all bees -- and the
flowers that depend upon them -- than any other human in history.
This intimate history is one very creative soul's lifework. Savor
it."
--Gary Nabhan, author of Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of
Science and Poetry "From the emperor Napoleon to a traditional
honey hunter in Malaysia, from suburban Tucson to the dark recesses
of a beehive, Letters from the Hive explores the world-wide,
ages-long intimacy between Apis mellifera and Homo
sapiens. The religion of the bee, the art and the biology of
beekeeping, one man's love and his race's long fascination with the
honeybee, it's all here--up to and including the treatment of
cataracts, how to avoid getting stung, and a recipe for lasagne
with honey. I have to say, Letters from the Hive provides
everything a beekeeper's apprentice could ask for."
--Laurie R. King, author of The Beekeeper's Apprentice
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