The Beekeeper's Pupil

I love this so much, but now I can't remember the details. I know the bee details captured my imagination, and I remember the story's non-linear style also intrigued me. I must go back and re-read this.

It joins all the other bee lore, honey lore, honey cookbooks, books with "bee" in the title and bee science books I've collected, all because of one line in Eric Hansen's Motoring With Mohammed. The one line that sparked an idea for my graduate thesis and may someday be my life's work...beekeeping as economic development.

This book is about the young man who became a man servant to the famous bee researcher Francois Huber. Huber is going blind and trains his man servant to be his "eyes" for his important research about honeybee. A good read details many of the wrong ideas about bees around 1776.