The beekeeper's lament : how one man and half a billion honey bees help feed America / Hannah Nordhaus.
Title:
The beekeeper's lament : how one man and half a billion honey bees help feed America / Hannah Nordhaus.
ISBN:
9780061873256
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
269 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents:
Fast cars and big trucks -- Beekeeper's roulette -- The tiny leviathan -- Faustian bargains -- Trespasses -- Charismatic mini-fauna -- Survivor stock -- The human swarm -- Bittersweet bounty -- Next year, right?
Summary:
Recounts the experiences of John Miller, one of the foremost migratory beekeepers, who, despite mysterious epidemics that threaten American honey populations--and the nation's agribusiness--forges on and moves ahead in a new natural world.
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OCLC Number:
ocn670476363
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