Bees and Their Keepers av Lotte Möller

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<p><b>A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift.</b><br><b><br>"A charming look at the history of beekeeping, from myth and folklore to our practical relationship with bees" <i>Gardens Illustrated</i></b><br><br><b>"An entertaining collation of bee trivia across the millennia" <i>Daily Telegraph</i></b><br><br><b>* Sweden''s Gardening Book of the Year 2019 * Shortlisted for the August Prize 2019 * Winner of the Swedish Book Design Award for 2019</b><br><br>Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte M¿ller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees'' natural order and habits. With a light touch she uses her encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject to shed light on humanity''s understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present. A humorous debunking of the myths that have held for centuries is matched by a wry exploration of how and