Description: ISBN: 9781524747862 Publisher: Pantheon 2020 New Hardcover 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.
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Book Title: Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings : a Year of Keeping Bees
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Animals / Insects & Spiders, Agriculture / Beekeeping, Personal Memoirs, Environmentalists & Naturalists
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2020
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Author: Helen Jukes
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
