Bibliograph

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, a year of keeping bees, Helen Jukes

Type

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A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, a year of keeping bees, Helen Jukes

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Helen Jukes

Sub title

a year of keeping bees

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, A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings shows us how to be alert to these small creatures flitting among us that are yet so vital a force for the continuation of life

Target audience

adult

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