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A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees / Helen Jukes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jukes, Helen, author.
- Series:
- Cornell scholarship online.
- Cornell scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jukes, Helen.
- Beekeepers--England--Biography.
- Beekeepers.
- Bees.
- Bee culture.
- Beekeepers--Anecdotes.
- Bee culture--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.) : 21 b&w halftones
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Comstock Publishing Associates, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and struggling to settle into her new job and home. Then friends gift her a colony of honeybees - a gift that, according to folklore, brings good luck - and Jukes embarks on the rewarding, perilous journey of becoming a beekeeper. Jukes writes about what it means to 'keep' wild creatures and to live alongside beings whose laws of life are so different from our own. She delves into the history of beekeeping, exploring the ancient - and sometimes disturbing - relationship between keeper and bee, human and wild thing. And as her colony grows, the very act of beekeeping seems to open new perspectives, making her world come alive again. A beautifully wrought meditation on uncertainty and hope, feelings of restlessness and home, and how we might better know ourselves.
- Contents:
- Doorway
- Hive
- Bee
- Orientation
- Losing sight
- Swarm
- Honey
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: London: Scribner, 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501766541
- 1501766546
- OCLC:
- 1304832732
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