The Art of Beekeeping Bees and Humans: A Partnership Through Time

By Tibor Weiner Sennyey

This is not a practical manual, but a book of essays at the crossroads of nature, culture, and thought.

Drawing on mythology, literature, art history, and contemporary science, The Art of Beekeeping examines how bees have shaped human imagination, agriculture, and ethics for thousands of years. For Weiner Sennyey, the practice of apiculture opens a path toward ecotherapy and biophilia - a renewed love of nature grounded in attention, humility, and care.

First published in two Hungarian editions, this book now appears in English for the first time in Deborah Marshall's translation. In an age of ecological crisis, these essays offer neither easy solutions nor sentimentality, but something rarer: a language for thinking clearly, and living sanely, in an increasingly fragile world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1919200495
• ISBN13: 9781919200491
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Northern Bee Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"