A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them

Sue Hubbell

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988 - Nature - 193 pages

"The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is her life," David Quammen wrote in the New York Times. This book is, like its author, a unique achievement. Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives through the seasons, Hubbell writes "about bees to be sure, but also about other things: the important difference between loneliness and solitude . . . the accommodating of oneself to nature" (Philadelphia Inquirer).

What people are saying

wonderfully written

User Review  - sole - Overstock.com

This is a beautifully written book and will fascinate bee enthusiasts as well as lay men and women who just like to read good books. Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful!

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - JNSelko - LibraryThing

An excellent primer on how one becomes entangled in the bee-raising (non-industrial) community. Enjoyable and a page-turner, if you want to have a book in your library about the joy of bees, this is it.

Contents

• THE BEEKEEPERS AUTUMN: 1
• THE BEEKEEPERS WINTER: 35
• THE BEEKEEPERS SPRING: 61
• THE BEEKEEPERS SUMMER: 125
• Afterword: 175
• Glossary: 179
• Index: 183

About the author

Sue Hubbell is the author of, among other works, A Country Year and A Book of Bees, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in Maine and Washington, D.C.

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them
• Author: Sue Hubbell
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1988
• ISBN: 0395883245, 9780395883242
• Length: 193 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Animals / Insects & Spiders; Nature / Essays; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General