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by Gene Stratton-Porter

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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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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.

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  • Title The Keeper of the Bees
  • Author Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1991-10-22
  • ISBN 9780253206916 / 025320691X
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1.3 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 3.30 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Didactic fiction, Christian fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 91015370
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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