RaveBook PostAfter years of fieldwork, Seeley has written a definitive account of bee life in the wild ... He gives a fascinating account of how he located nests by baiting feeding boxes ... A fascinating chapter details how wild bees construct their wild nests ... One is lost in admiration at the complexity, indeed ingenuity, of bees in the wild ... The Lives of Bees is a beautifully written journey through the little known world of wild bees. Freely leavened with Seeley’s own, almost unrivaled, experience of bee life, this remarkable book will become a definitive classic.
Craig Childs
PanThe New York TimesThe prose here oozes drama ... Childs’s account of his journey is fueled by his misleading vision of a hazardous ice age America teeming with large, ferocious predators. But his own travels are routine, and on the whole experiences any fit traveler can replicate ... His writing style is overly dramatic, smacking of today’s restless television programming, and remarkable only for rare moments of vivid description. Atlas of a Lost World is neither a successful travel book nor, with its promiscuous use of good and bad science, does it represent scientific reality.
