![]() ![]() ![]() From the hive to honey, from beekeepers to honeymooners, via. In this beautifully illustrated book, Bee Wilson shows how humans will always view the hive as a miniature universe with order and purpose, and look to it to make sense of their own. In this gem of a book, award-winning writer Bee Wilson explores the magical world of the honeybee. ![]() The history of humans and honeybees is also a history of ideas, taking us through the evolution of science, religion, and politics, and a social history that explores the bee's impact on food and human ritual. It ranges from the honey delta of ancient Egypt to the Tupelo forests of modern Florida, taking in a cast of characters including Alexander the Great and Napoleon, Sherlock Holmes and Muhammed Ali. We have new and used copies available, in 1 editions - starting. The Hive recounts the astonishing tale of all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their "society" over the ages. Buy The Hive by Bee Wilson online at Alibris. No other creature has inspired in humans an identification so passionate, persistent, or fantastical. The author explores the magic world of the honeybee - from the honey delta of ancient Egypt. Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying. THE HIVE: the story of the honeybee and us - UK. ![]()
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