
A honeybee heart has five openings : A year of keeping bees / Helen Jukes.
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Summary:
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. 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. Juke 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. -- from book jacket.View other formats and editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Age Hold Protection | Active/Create Date | Status | Due Date |
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Cook Memorial Library - La Grande | 638.1 J93 (Text) | 35178001810608 | Adult Non-Fiction | Book | Branch_Only_3months | 06/09/2020 | Available | - |
Hood River County Library | 638.1 JUK 2020 (Text) | 33892100694836 | Adult New Books | Book | None | 07/17/2020 | Available | - |
The Dalles Wasco County Library | 638.1 JUK (Text) | 33892006605233 | NEW BOOKS | New/High Demand | None | 07/08/2020 | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 9781524747862
- ISBN: 1524747866
- Physical Description: 233 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2020]
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Originally published in hardcover, in slightly different form, in Great Britain by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., in 2018"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Doorway -- Hive -- Bee -- Orientation -- Losing sight -- Swarm -- Honey -- Afterward. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. 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. Juke 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. -- from book jacket. |
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Subject: | Beekeepers > England > Biography. Bees. Bee culture. Beekeepers > Anecdotes. Bee culture > History. |
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