The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
Autor Bee Wilsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2007
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. No other creature has inspired in humans an identification so passionate, persistent, or fantastical.
The Hive recounts the astonishing tale of all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their “society” over the ages. 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.
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.
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.
The Hive recounts the astonishing tale of all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their “society” over the ages. 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.
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780312371241
ISBN-10: 0312371241
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: GRIFFIN
ISBN-10: 0312371241
Pagini: 308
Dimensiuni: 137 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: GRIFFIN
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Notă biografică
Bee Wilson was a food critic of England’s New Statesman for five years, and now writes a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph. She was named Food Journalist of the Year in 2004 by the Guild of Food Writers for her column, two years after being named BBC Radio 4 Food Writer of the Year. She recently completed a research fellowship in the History of Ideas at St. John’s College, Cambridge. She is married with two children, and this is her first book.
Descriere
Bee Wilson's study of her namesake is both a history of ideas and an exploration of the bee's impact on food and ritual. Beautifully illustrated, "The Hive" portrays a miniature universe and explores the human tendency to see ourselves in it. 60 photos.
Recenzii
A light and delicious book, in an exceptionally pretty honey-coloured jacket gilded with bees, and it is written with sparkle and charm ... some of her best writing is about the deliciousness of honey, and it is hard to read her chapter of recipes without drooling.
Can hardly be bettered.
Bee Wilson's little book is a small hive of treasure. It is a sweet celebration of our appreciation of the honeybee
Fascinating, careful, witty and intelligent ... Riveting ... Almost any paragraph chosen at random is entertaining
Richly informative and beautifully written
Wonderfully entertaining reading.
Erudite and elegant ... Bee Wilson writes fluently and engagingly and she manages to present a great deal of curious information in a form as easy to swallow as a spoonful of the finest Attic honey ... The book is also exceptionally pleasing to look at and hold.
A fascinating tribute to the bee
This biography is immensely detailed, intelligent, generous, sympathetic, and often entertaining...Betjeman fans...will delight in Hillier's monumental work
Entertaining and thoroughly worthwhile
Fascinating
A charming, fascinating pot-pourri of all things beelike
Erudite, informative, accurate and a delight to read.
Wilson presents the history of the honeybee in this engaging and anecdote-filled account
'Wilson has a fine eye for character sketches'
'For a moment you may feel, as I did, that part of Wilson's research for this book involved turning into a bee for a few days ... Amazing.' -- Nick Lezard
'Beautifully produced and well-researched ...leaving readers to marvel'.
'There are delights and surprises on virtually every page of this gem of a book'
'Bee Wilson conveys a real sense of the relationship between bees and us, and her short, punchy chapters are witty and fascinating'
'Wilson's sprightly hymn to the honeybee ... conveys ... the marvel, complexity and ultimate unknowability that has made the beehive such a fascination
'This is the Christmas book with a real sting.'
She manages to present a great deal of information in a form as easy to swallow as a spoonful of honey.
Buzzes with info and has the prettiest dust-jacket of the third millennium
Endlessly fascinating
'A riveting read . . .this beguiling book is more a history of ideas than an actual study . . .buzzing with fascinating facts'
'Bee Wilson recounts all the weird and wonderful things people have believed about bees'
'Juicy reading . . .worth buying for the illustration on p. 204 alone'
'Bee Wilson . . .connects readers' imaginations with their salivary glands'
'A brilliant examination of a natural phenomenon we all take for granted'
'Delightful'
'Fascinating and readable. Wilson writes with flair and wit about everything from Pliny to pollination; her love of honey in all its sheer sensuousness shines through'
'Can hardly be bettered . . .Principally a writer on food, Wilson none the less knows a lot about keeping honeybees, and also about their biology and natural history, waxworks and candles, and the changing shape of the beehive'
'Beautifully written and absorbing'
Can hardly be bettered.
Bee Wilson's little book is a small hive of treasure. It is a sweet celebration of our appreciation of the honeybee
Fascinating, careful, witty and intelligent ... Riveting ... Almost any paragraph chosen at random is entertaining
Richly informative and beautifully written
Wonderfully entertaining reading.
Erudite and elegant ... Bee Wilson writes fluently and engagingly and she manages to present a great deal of curious information in a form as easy to swallow as a spoonful of the finest Attic honey ... The book is also exceptionally pleasing to look at and hold.
A fascinating tribute to the bee
This biography is immensely detailed, intelligent, generous, sympathetic, and often entertaining...Betjeman fans...will delight in Hillier's monumental work
Entertaining and thoroughly worthwhile
Fascinating
A charming, fascinating pot-pourri of all things beelike
Erudite, informative, accurate and a delight to read.
Wilson presents the history of the honeybee in this engaging and anecdote-filled account
'Wilson has a fine eye for character sketches'
'For a moment you may feel, as I did, that part of Wilson's research for this book involved turning into a bee for a few days ... Amazing.' -- Nick Lezard
'Beautifully produced and well-researched ...leaving readers to marvel'.
'There are delights and surprises on virtually every page of this gem of a book'
'Bee Wilson conveys a real sense of the relationship between bees and us, and her short, punchy chapters are witty and fascinating'
'Wilson's sprightly hymn to the honeybee ... conveys ... the marvel, complexity and ultimate unknowability that has made the beehive such a fascination
'This is the Christmas book with a real sting.'
She manages to present a great deal of information in a form as easy to swallow as a spoonful of honey.
Buzzes with info and has the prettiest dust-jacket of the third millennium
Endlessly fascinating
'A riveting read . . .this beguiling book is more a history of ideas than an actual study . . .buzzing with fascinating facts'
'Bee Wilson recounts all the weird and wonderful things people have believed about bees'
'Juicy reading . . .worth buying for the illustration on p. 204 alone'
'Bee Wilson . . .connects readers' imaginations with their salivary glands'
'A brilliant examination of a natural phenomenon we all take for granted'
'Delightful'
'Fascinating and readable. Wilson writes with flair and wit about everything from Pliny to pollination; her love of honey in all its sheer sensuousness shines through'
'Can hardly be bettered . . .Principally a writer on food, Wilson none the less knows a lot about keeping honeybees, and also about their biology and natural history, waxworks and candles, and the changing shape of the beehive'
'Beautifully written and absorbing'