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His imagination fired by a book about the incredible fecundity and productivity of bees, Gordon McKay sets out from Boston in 1857 with his wife and her brother intent on creating a bee empire in Kansas and meets with assorted disasters and obstacles
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Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855 with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees—undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly-minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war.
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Thomas McMahon (1943 1999) was the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mechanics and professor of biology at Harvard University. He is the author of Loving Little Egypt and Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry, both published by the University of Chicago Press, as well as the posthumous novel, Ira Foxglove..
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0060913681
- ISBN 13 9780060913687
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