The Keeper of the Bees (The Library of Indiana Classics) - Hardcover

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025335496X ISBN 13: 9780253354969

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Set in the author's adopted home of California in the 1920s, this is Gene Stratton-Porter's last novel, a story filled with wisdom, a love of nature, and her own abiding optimism. In it a Master Bee Keeper, his bees, and the natural beauty of California restore a wounded World War I veteran to health.

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From the Back Cover

Broken in spirit and body, James Lewis MacFarland, a wounded veteran of World War I, decides to escape from the military hospital before he is sent to a hospital for tubercular patients. He sets out on a great adventure which takes him to the healing sun and ocean of California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 025335496X
• ISBN 13: 9780253354969
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 528