The Hive recounts the astonishing tale of all the weird and wonderful things that humans believed about bees and their "society" over the ages. It ranges from the honey delta of ancient Egypt to the Tupelo forests of modern Florida, taking in a cast of characters including Alexander the Great and Napoleon, Sherlock Holmes and Muhammed Ali.
The history of humans and honeybees is also a history of ideas, taking us through the evolution of science, religion, and politics, and a social history that explores the bee's impact on food and human ritual.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Bee Wilson shows how humans will always view the hive as a miniature universe with order and purpose, and look to it to make sense of their own.

Other cookbooks by this author

• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
• First Bite
• First Bite
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
• First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
• The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects
• The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects
• Sandwich: A Global History
• Sandwich: A Global History
• Sandwich
• The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
• The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
• The Secret of Cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
• Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, from Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee
• Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of the Food Cheats
• The secret of cooking: Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen
• The secret of cooking
• This Is Not a Diet Book: A User’s Guide to Eating Well
• The Way We Eat Now
• The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World
• The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World