The honey bee is a willing conscript, a working wonder, an unseen and crucial link in America's agricultural industry. But never before has its survival been so unclear—and the future of our food supply so acutely challenged.

Enter beekeeper John Miller, who trucks his hives around the country, bringing millions of bees to farmers otherwise bereft of natural pollinators. Even as the mysterious and deadly epidemic known as Colony Collapse Disorder devastates bee populations across the globe, Miller forges ahead with the determination and wry humor of a true homespun hero. The Beekeeper's Lament tells his story and that of his bees, making for a complex, moving, and unforgettable portrait of man in the new natural world.

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The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America (Paperback)

By Hannah Nordhaus

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ISBN-13: 9780061873256
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Published: Harper Perennial, 6/2011

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Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus explores the importance of bees and beekeepers in this fascinating and entertaining piece of narrative non-fiction. In bringing herself to the material, Nordhaus injects a perfect dose of humor and self-deprecation to an otherwise serious scientific subject. In turn, she shares with the reader her human subjects' best and worst traits, putting a sympathetic face on a relatively unknown industry.

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