The Sussex beekeeper at the dawn of time, or, The adventure of the Star of Wonder : at the heart of which is a ghost story experienced in 1873 by Hans the Hottentot ... recounted ... by Allan Quatermain ... entire monograph assembled, edited, supplemented and annotated by Thomas Kent Miller.
Miller, Thos. Kent(Thomas Kent),1945-author.
Belanger, Brian,1970-cover designer.
Davies, ElizabethIllustratorillustrator.
Mitchell, Maria,1818-1889.Journals.Selections.
Haggard, H. Rider(Henry Rider),1856-1925.
The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time ... flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres.  The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal pages from across two millennia, much of it held together by the pithy comments ... of a certain elderly beekeeper residing in Sussex, England.  ... In a sense, much of the book comprises a straightforward objective record of the excavation of "historical" minutiae and "forgotten" manuscripts.... -- Cover, page [4]
The Sussex beekeeper at the dawn of time, or, The adventure of the Star of Wonder, at the heart of which is a ghost story experienced in 1873 by Hans the Hottentot, Aide-de-Camp to Allan Quatermain and his father before him, as immediately related, then recounted nine years later in 1882 by Allan Quatermain, Author of "King Solomon's Mines," "She and Allan," ETC, to his friend and companion of harrowing adventures, who set down the tale as it was told to her, later bequeathing it to her Mysterious Cousin "M", Lady Luna Holmes Ragnall, heroine of "The Ivory Child, and "The Ancient Allan", 1905 annotation and apicultural commentary by M* ably assisted by SS**, including a letter by, and extracts from the journals of Maria Mitchell, America's first woman astronomer, entire monograph assembled, edited, supplemented and annotated by Thomas Kent Miller, editor of "The great detective at the crucible of life," etc.  -- Double title page.
Title page: *Some authorities have argued from internal evidence that "M" is the initial of a pseudonymous name used by a certain Great Detective during his retirement in Sussex.  **The same authorities sometimes suggest that "SS" are the initials of a neighbor, fellow honey fancier, and occasional assistant of M during this late interlude.
Cover design by Brian Belanger.  Interior drawings by Elizabeth Davies.
Advertising  matter: [9] pages at end
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-357)
The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time ... flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres.  The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal pages from across two millennia, much of it held together by the pithy comments ... of a certain elderly beekeeper residing in Sussex, England.  ... In a sense, much of the book comprises a straightforward objective record of the excavation of "historical" minutiae and "forgotten" manuscripts.... -- Cover, page [4]
Holmes, Sherlock
Quatermain, Allan (Fictitious character)