HarperCollins Publishers (10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022), 2014. 352 pages, hardcover. $25.99. Reviewed by Karen Schaefer I’ve just lapped up The Bees, by Laline Paull, the latest honey trap in fiction that, to me, purports to be the Watership Down of the honeybee world. While I have some familiarity with hive colony collapse and […]
The Beekeeper’s Bible, by Richard A. Jones & Sharon Sweeney-Lynch
Stewart Tabori & Chang (c/o Abrams, 115 West 18th St., New York, NY 10011), 2011. 412 pages, hardcover. $35.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Reputedly living on a diet of milk, honey, and locusts, commonly interpreted to mean locust beans rather than the insects, John the Baptist was for centuries regarded as a proto-vegetarian, beginning […]