Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780394558943ISBN:0394558944
Description: Pottoff, Sam. Very Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Copy is stamped on top and on half title page, bep, fep is missing, slight rubbing, some peeling on the inside back cover, three pages at beginning have a crinkle, dj is attached to the inside covers, crinkled on the flaps, rubbing. Ms. Hubbell provides us with a step by step understanding of the often painstaking but consistently rewarding process of having bees of one's own. Much more than a handbook or how to manual ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1988-08-12
ISBN-13:9780394558943ISBN:0394558944
Description: Good. Note: Printing error...book title misprinted on the outside of the book. Interior of book correctly titled and printed. No dustjacket, Minor shelf wear, hinge cracked, binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Some moisture ripples to several pages and curl back of covers. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 208 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 1998-04-13
ISBN-13:9780395883242ISBN:0395883245
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780395883242. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780395883242ISBN:0395883245
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"This makes me dream of spending the hottest part of the summer inner-tubing down a cool watered river with one hand for navigation and another holding a cold bottle of beer, and of course checking my make-believe hive boxes I placed near the river.
When I get older, beekeeping is definitely going to be on my list of hobbies."
"I first discovered Sue Hubbell in the pages of The New Yorker. She had written a long article about her life with honeybees and you know The New Yorker, it was indeed a long, long article. Sometime later, I discovered she had written a book about the same topic.
Growing up in the mountains, my Dad was a beekeeper, so I learned to help him with his hives. When I left home, I soon had a colony of my own and tended the bees, canning their golden, sweet honey for a couple of years before I learned I had developed an allergy to their nasty little stings. I had to give away "my girls" but still retain my interest in the little buggers.
Hubbell's book, "A Book of Bees" was a delightful return to the world of an apiculturist. It's filled with the facts, history and lore of beekeeping, written by someone who for a time tended up to 300 hives in the Ozark Mountains of southern Missouri.
"For a long, long time-for nearly forty years-I never had any bees. I can't think why. Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils. They can be kept anywhere. A well-known New York City publisher keeps bees on the terrace of his Upper East Side penthouse, where they happily work the flowers in Central Park," Hubbell writes. "I have had bees now for fifteen years, and my life is the better for it."
Her book takes you through the seasons in Missouri, a beekeeper's year."
"I have to return this book to the library without having finished it -- and that's the only reason I haven't. It's charming. Everytime I pick it up I am drawn right in. Hubbell's writing is very accessible, which is important when writing a sort of manual and a memoir at the same time. If I decide to get a few hives (something I am contemplating and what drew me to this book -- thanks Neil G. for the recommendation) I will definitely purchase this book. i will be looking up the pieces she wrote for the New Yorker in the meantime."
"A quiet, wonderful book about the joyfulness and satisfaction found in solitude and in work that is part of ones soul. Also makes you pay way more appriciative attention to bees, which is always a good thing."
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