An entomologist at Mississippi State University, where I work, recommended this book to me based on our mutual interest and work with bees. The full title is Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey — the Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World. You can read an excerpt online here.Holley Bishop — a trained journalist and one-time literary agent — penned this comprehensive narrative as a history of beekeeping and behind-the-scenes look into one man’s apiary over the course of a year or two. Mixed in with the different, thematically arranged chapters (Pollination, The Sting, Wax, etc.) are brief essays …

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