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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781471167744
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
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'This bookhas found a special place in my heart. Itsas strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'HELEN MACDONALD, author ofH IS FOR HAWK
Everyone should ownA Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, 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 writingObserver
Written finely and insightful Guardian
A fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper's year of keeping honeybees, which will appeal to readers ofH is For HawkandThe Outrun
Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics and temporary addresses - disconnected, stressed. Struggling to settle into her latest job and home in Oxford, she realises she needs to effect a change if shes to create a meaningful life for herself, one that can accommodate comfort and labour and love. Then friends give her the gift of a colony of honeybees - according to folklore, bees freely given bring luck - and Helen embarks on her first full year of beekeeping. But what does it mean to keep wild creatures? In learning about the bees, what can she learn of herself? And can travelling inside the hive free her outside it?
As Helen grapples with her role in the delicate, awe-inspiring ecosystem of the hive, the very act of keeping seems to open up new perspectives, deepen friendships old a
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781471167744
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pages: 384
Description:
'This bookhas found a special place in my heart. Itsas strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'HELEN MACDONALD, author ofH IS FOR HAWK
Everyone should ownA Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, 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 writingObserver
Written finely and insightful Guardian
A fascinating, insightful and inspiring account of a novice beekeeper's year of keeping honeybees, which will appeal to readers ofH is For HawkandThe Outrun
Entering her thirties, Helen Jukes feels trapped in an urban grind of office politics and temporary addresses - disconnected, stressed. Struggling to settle into her latest job and home in Oxford, she realises she needs to effect a change if shes to create a meaningful life for herself, one that can accommodate comfort and labour and love. Then friends give her the gift of a colony of honeybees - according to folklore, bees freely given bring luck - and Helen embarks on her first full year of beekeeping. But what does it mean to keep wild creatures? In learning about the bees, what can she learn of herself? And can travelling inside the hive free her outside it?
As Helen grapples with her role in the delicate, awe-inspiring ecosystem of the hive, the very act of keeping seems to open up new perspectives, deepen friendships old a