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- ISBN
- 9781524747862
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1524747866
ISBN-13
9781524747862
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038718791
Product Key Features
Book Title
Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings : a Year of Keeping Bees
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Animals / Insects & Spiders, Agriculture / Beekeeping, Personal Memoirs, Environmentalists & Naturalists
Publication Year
2020
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
16.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2019-024125
Reviews
"Helen Jukes provides a fascinating glimpse into the secret world of these mysterious creatures upon whose relentless labor human life hinges." --Lisa Alther, author of Swan Song "As strange, beautiful, and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its moving as bees in a hive. I loved it." --Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk "A mesmeric, lovely, quietly powerful book." --Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast "Evocative . . . affecting . . . Readers will appreciate the candor and inviting openness of Jukes's voice throughout this winning memoir." -- Publishers Weekly "So beautifully written, it's become part of my life. Definitely one of my books of the year." --Fiona Talkington, BBC Radio 3 "A special kind of treasure." --Naomi Booth, author of Sealed "A lovely, entirely personal journey into the very heart of the hive." --Michael Pye, author of The Edge of the World "A book you can't wait to read. It doesn't happen often. Enchanting, real, and full of insight," --Mary Colwell "Luminously honest and affecting . . . Everyone should own this book, which moved and delighted me more than a book about insects had any right to . . . Jukes is a gloriously gifted writer and her book ought to become a key text of this bright moment in our history of nature writing." --Alex Preston, The Observer "From its delicious title onwards, this debut about beekeeping is pure delight." -- The Bookseller (editor's pick), "Evocative ... affecting ... Readers will appreciate the candor and inviting openness of Jukes's voice throughout this winning memoir."-- Publishers Weekly "Helen Jukes provides a fascinating glimpse into the secret world of these mysterious creatures upon whose relentless labor human life hinges."--Lisa Alther
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
A
Dewey Decimal
638/.10942
Table Of Content
1 Doorway . 1 2 Hive . 27 3 Bee . 73 4 Orientation .95 5 Losing Sight . 121 6 Swarm . 157 7 Honey . 189 Afterword . 215 Acknowledgments . 219 Bibliography . 221 Index . 227
Synopsis
An inspiring, up-close portrait of beekeeping--a year of living dangerously--observing and capturing the wondrous, complex ecosystem of honeybees and their hive, and the emotional, spiritual transformation that changed the way the author sees, and is in, the world. The critics embrace Helen Jukes's A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings - "As strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it." --Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk - "Beautifully written and timely." --Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland Helen Jukes is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected and trapped by her office job, when the book opens. She is struggling to settle into a new life in her recently purchased house in Oxford with its own small yard. As she ponders her new neighborhood and the many possibilities of a garden, she is brought back to a time in London when she accompanied a friend--a beekeeper--on his hive visits. And then, for good luck, she is given a colony of honeybees. According to folklore, a colony, freely given, brings good fortune, and the author embarks on an emotional, rewarding journey during the course of a year as she cares for these wondrous beings and learns the art of beekeeping. Jukes writes about what it means to "keep" wild creatures . . . on how to live alongside beings whose laws and logics are so different from our own . . . She delves into the history of beekeeping, and writes about discovering the ancient, complex, sometimes disturbing relationship between keeper and bee, human and wild thing. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is a story of observation, of the irrepressible wildness of these fascinating creatures so necessary to life on planet Earth, of the ways they seem to evade our categories, each time we attempt to define them. Are they wild, or domestic? Individual, or collective? Is honey an animal product, or plant-based? As the author's colony grows, and the questions that, at first, compel her interest begin to fade away, we see that the in-betweenness, the unsettledness, of honeybees calls out to a different kind of questioning; a different kind of consideration., An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive--a year of living dangerously--watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning an altogether different way of being in the world. "As strange, beautiful, and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings as bees in a hive. I loved it." --Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings begins as the author is entering her thirties and feeling disconnected in her life. Uneasy about her future and struggling to settle into her new house in Oxford with its own small garden, she is brought back to a time of accompanying a friend in London--a beekeeper--on his hive visits. And as a gesture of good fortune for her new life, she is given a colony of honeybees. According to folklore, a colony, freely given, brings good luck, and Helen Jules embarks on a rewarding, perilous journey of becoming a beekeeper. Jukes writes about what it means to "keep" wild creatures; on how to live alongside beings whose laws and logic are so different from our own . . . She delves into the history of beekeeping and writes about discovering the ancient, haunting, sometimes disturbing relationship between keeper and bee, human and wild thing. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings is a book of observation, of the irrepressible wildness of these fascinating creatures, of the ways they seem to evade our categories each time we attempt to define them. Are they wild or domestic? Individual or collective? Is honey an animal product or is it plant-based? As the author's colony grows, the questions that have, at first compelled her interest to fade away, and the inbetweenness, the unsettledness of honeybees call for a different kind of questioning, of consideration. A subtle yet urgent mediation on uncertainty and hope, on solitude and friendship, on feelings of restlessness and on home; on how we might better know ourselves. A book that shows us how to be alert to the large and small creatures that flit between and among us and that urge us to learn from this vital force so necessary to be continuation of life on planet Earth.
LC Classification Number
SF523.82.J85A3 2020
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