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Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1201238 in Books
- Published on: 2006-05-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Builds a social history of the bee in America, beginning with the earliest colonists and ending with hyper-contemporary electronic hives and the Bee Genome Project.... A heroic book in its scope." - Salon.com "Provides a wealth of worthy material about bees in America, from the use of the hive metaphor to justify colonization in the 1500s and 1600s to bees' role in pollinating the prairies and orchards that we now take for granted." - Publishers Weekly "From the honey producers of ancient times to today's military scouts, bees have always been at the center of history, and Tammy Horn's book gives an excellent overview of how and why." - Invention & Technology "You will love this book.... That honey bees helped shape America cannot be disputed. Here are many of the ways they worked their magic." - Bee Culture"
About the Author
Tammy Horn teaches at Berea College. She learned beekeeping from her grandfather, who grew up hunting bee trees in eastern Kentucky.
