{"title":"Lotte Möller","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"bees-and-their-keepers-by-lotte-moller-9781529405262","title":"Bees and Their Keepers","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A charming look at the history of beekeeping, from myth and folklore to our practical relationship with bees\" \u003cem\u003eGardens Illustrated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"An entertaining collation of bee trivia across the millennia\" \u003cem\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Sweden's Gardening Book of the Year 2019 \u003c\/em\u003e Shortlisted for the August Prize 2019 * Winner of the Swedish Book Design Award for 2019\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBees and Their Keepers\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and habits. With a light touch, beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller uses her encyclopaedic knowledge to shed light on humanity's understanding of bees and bee lore from antiquity to the present. A humorous debunking of the myths that have held for centuries is matched by a wry exploration of how and when they were replaced by fact.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn her travels, Möller encounters a trigger-happy Californian beekeeper raging against both killer bees and bee politics, warring beekeepers on the Danish island of Læsø, and Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey, breeder of the Buckfast queen now popular throughout Europe and beyond, as well as a host of others as passionate as she about the complex world of apiculture both past and present.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTranslated from the Swedish by Frank Perry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46832429072620,"sku":"9781529405262","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14474343482732.jpg?v=1758387712"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/lotte-moller.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}