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Manuka: The Biography of an Extraordinary Honey

By: Cliff Van Eaton(Author)
256 pages, colour photos, ccolour & b/w illustration
Manuka: The Biography of an Extraordinary Honey
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Not so long ago, in a small island nation in the South Pacific, beekeepers produced a most peculiar honey. It was much darker than the clover honey everyone put on their toast in the morning, and it tasted very different. In fact, the honey was a problem: it was hard to get out of the combs, and even harder for beekeepers to sell. Today that honey, manuka from New Zealand, is known around the world. It fetches high prices, and beekeepers do everything in their power to produce as much of it as possible. Wound dressings containing manuka honey are used in leading hospitals, and it has saved the lives of patients infected with disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to standard antibiotic drugs. In so doing it has forced the medical profession to rethink its position on the therapeutic properties of natural products.

Manuka: The Biography of an Extraordinary Honey chronicles the remarkable 'rags-to-riches' story of manuka honey, as seen through the eyes of a New Zealand beekeeping specialist who watched it unfold from the very beginning. It's a great tale of science, in which an inquisitive university lecturer found something totally unexpected in a product everyone had written off. It's also an entertaining account of the way that seemingly simple discovery caught the international media's attention, helping enterprising New Zealanders to develop manuka honey-based products and take them all around the globe. But above all else it's a story of hope for the future, sounding a note of optimism in a world that for good reason feels saddened and sometimes even afraid about the future of the special relationship we humans have always had with those marvellous creatures, the honey bees.

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Biography

Cliff Van Eaton is a well-known writer on beekeeping subjects and is co-author of two books on bee diseases used by beekeepers in New Zealand and overseas. For over 30 years he worked as a beekeeping adviser and consultant in New Zealand, and has also assisted beekeepers in countries as diverse as the Solomon Islands, Uruguay and Vietnam.

By: Cliff Van Eaton(Author)
256 pages, colour photos, ccolour & b/w illustration
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"A fascinating book."
– Apiservices.com, the world's most popular beekeeping website

"Compulsive read."
MindFood magazine

"There are things in this book even I didn't know about manuka. I literally couldn't put it down."
– Dr. Peter Molan, MBE, the discoverer of the unique antibacterial activity in manuka honey.

"A well-researched, superbly written book."
NZ Beekeeper magazine

"A love letter to honey, bees and beekeepers."
– Kathryn Ryan, Nine to Noon, Radio New Zealand

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