Dancing with Bees
A Journey Back to Nature
by Brigit Strawbridge Howard
Narrated by Brigit Strawbridge Howard
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Pub Date Sep 06 2019 | Archive Date May 06 2022
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Description
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner!
Shortlisted for the 2020 Wainwright Prize
The Sunday Times Best Nature Writing Books 2020
A naturalist’s passionate dive into the lives of bees (of all stripes) — and the natural world in her own backyard
Brigit Strawbridge Howard was shocked the day she realized she knew more about the French Revolution than she did about her native trees. And birds. And wildflowers. And bees. The thought stopped her — quite literally — in her tracks. But that day was also the start of a journey, one filled with silver birches and hairy-footed flower bees, skylarks, and rosebay willow herb, and the joy that comes with deepening one’s relationship with place.
Dancing with Bees is Strawbridge Howard’s charming and eloquent account of a return to noticing, to rediscovering a perspective on the world that had somehow been lost to her for decades and to reconnecting with the natural world. With special care and attention to the plight of pollinators, including honeybees, bumblebees, and solitary bees, and what we can do to help them, Strawbridge Howard shares fascinating details of the lives of flora and fauna that have filled her days with ever-increasing wonder and delight.
Advance Praise
AudioFile Earphones Award Winner!
"Howard creates a text that is compelling and worth your time even if you're not a fellow bee advocate."—Kirkus Reviews
"[A] fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of nature. . .This satisfying memoir of a woman’s reawakening to the importance of nature in her life will appeal to fans of natural history memoirs, bees, the natural world, or ecology."—Library Journal
“[An] engaging, richly descriptive tale of natural discovery."—Booklist (starred)
“Hovering through Brigit Strawbridge Howard’s remarkable encounters with bees, alighting on beautiful and often unexpected descriptions of bumblebees, miner bees, and even parasitizing cuckoo bees, one dips into a world most of us have forgotten. By leading us gently and discretely into the minutiae of nature, Brigit shows how rewarding it is to reconnect—how the world’s tiniest beings can not only lift our spirits, but signal the way to a richer, wilder future.”—Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
"Like a bee herself, Strawbridge Howard is at once pragmatic and whimsical, flitting lightly between practical advice for crafting a bee-friendly garden and wise digressions about our manipulative relationship with nature. By the end of Dancing with Bees, you’ll wholeheartedly agree that these indispensable creatures should be extolled as ‘our equals, not our minions.’”—Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager
Available Editions
| EDITION | Audiobook, Unabridged |
| ISBN | 9781603588508 |
| PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
| DURATION | 12 Hours, 32 Minutes |
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