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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