Customer Reviews Rating: - Went out and bought honey after reading the book
It was fantastic! I was laughing and absorbingly reading this book and couldn't put it down. This book went along nicely with the current media awareness campaign of the plight of the honeybee. Current research indicates that every third bite or drink of food is the direct result of bee pollination. Do you like almonds? Almonds are entirely reliant upon bee pollination. No bees = no almonds. Other foods are also heavily reliant on bees to produce many of the foods we enjoy from watermelons to raspberries. Bees were also used as weapons in times of war-just catapult a container of bees on your enemies (along with bags of snakes and dead plague victims) and watch your enemies run away. Even now honey is being reintroduced in the field on medicine for burn victims since it has many properties that aid in helping the body to repair the damaged skin.
Rating: - Book about bees
It's a book with an agenda. The author turned me off long before I read more than 60 pages. I consider the author to have an agenda to promote the entrapping of bees. Obviously she's into the business of harnessing bees for profit. Her ridiculous staments "Bees are better pets than dogs" is just that RIDICULOUS! Bees aren't pets, they can't ever be made into pets, all we can do to them is to let them be free and form wild colonies or entrap them for profit. Another thing to ponder for those who call themselves VEGANS, honey isn't vegan, it's an animal product.
I recommend the book seller though, I received prompt and courteous service from them.
Rating: - Editor Needed!
Good book if you can skip over the extraneous bits. Alot of un-necessary information. Author has interesting story to tell, but when she gets into a whole section about how the bee-keeper mistakenly painted his house some bright color of pink and there's no connection to bees here, she loses me. Book is another in my collection of 1/2 read tomes.
Rating: - excellent!
an excellent bio of honey, bees, beekeeping and the role the three subjects have in history and our lives. great read.
Rating: - Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey
This is one of the best books I have read. Makes me want to get a bee hive for my back yard. Very interesting facts about bees and honey. Every high school/middle school science class should read this book. I liked it so much I bought it for friends.
- Went out and bought honey after reading the book
- Book about bees
- Editor Needed!
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