Making A Bee-line by Eva Crane Beginner – MARL A

– MARL A

and the present book was commissioned

Unique and authoritative

the subtitle of which is Discovering the Medicinal Benefits of Honey deals with honey and its health giving benefits from ancient civilisations until the advent of antibiotics together with the uses of honey in wound care

This short account is an attempt to draw together

Making A Bee-line by Eva Crane Beginner – MARL AEva Crane, OBE, DSc, was Director of the International Bee Research Association (1949 83), and she continued to write, and to travel, in her retirement. Her many publications on beekeeping and honey and their history are known worldwide. She gained much of her knowledge of these subjects during her travels, to sixty countries. Everywhere she went she sampled the life of local people, sometimes in remote rural areas of the world. Dr Crane writes