A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings : : A Year of Keeping Bees / / Helen Jukes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Jukes, Helen,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 21 b&w halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 1 Doorway --; 2 Hive --; 3 Bee --; 4 Orientation --; 5 Losing Sight --; 6 Swarm --; 7 Honey --; Afterword --; Acknowledgments --; Bibliography --; Index --; A Note on the Type
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501766541; 9783110751826; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993196; 9783110993134
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501766541
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Helen Jukes.

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 which, 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.