Picture 1 of 1

Stock photo

BEEING: LIFE, MOTHERHOOD, AND 180,000 HONEY BEES By Rosanne Daryl Thomas **NEW** - Picture 1 of 1

Beeing : Life, Motherhood, and 180,000 Honey Bees by Rosanne Daryl Thomas (2002, Hardcover)

ZUBER (267405)

97.8% positive Feedback

Price:

US $47.75

Approximately£35.34

+ $14.94 postage

Estimated delivery Mon, 4 Aug - Fri, 15 Aug

Returns:

30 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

New

BEEING: LIFE, MOTHERHOOD, AND 180,000 HONEY BEES By Rosanne Daryl Thomas - Hardcover **BRAND NEW**.

About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherGlobe Pequot Press, T.H.E.

ISBN-101585747319

ISBN-139781585747313

eBay Product ID (ePID)2326079

Product Key Features

Book TitleBeeing : Life, Motherhood, and 180000 Honey Bees

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicAnimals / Insects & Spiders, Agriculture / Beekeeping, General

GenreNature, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorRosanne Daryl Thomas

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-013071

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Thomas writes with the gentle precision of a master." -- Newsweek "Through Rosanne Daryl Thomas's witty prose the reader is catapulted into a land where bee colonies, with the ever-swarmed queen, prove to be remarkably similar to human society...In between her Ball jars of sugar honey and countless trips to True Value hardware, we also come to know August, and amazing little girl who is able to encourage her mother's spiritual growth while acting like a regular kid." -- St. Petersburg Times Review, "From its punning title to its final lines, Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural world, tales of failure and triumph with the hives, and a stellar cast of characters that includes her daughter, their cats, the hapless Farmer Tom, Pete the crossing guard, and, most important, the Bee Master. Every word tastes sweet as honey."--Janet Lembke "Rosanne Daryl Thomas guides the reader through a chapter of her life when she turned to bees to sustain her through a difficult transition. The combination of pathos and hilarity leave us rooting for her and 'her girls' (the bees) as they tackle the hard and fascinating work of turning life into honey." --Mary-Ann Tirone Smith, author of An American Killing "Beeing is poetic, literary, factual (an annotated bibliography is included) and chronological by seasons. There is a nice balance between the poetry and the hive maintenance, the literary references and the remedies for stings. But perhaps the following quote from the 'Berlin Magical Papyrus' that opens Thomas' tenth chapter, best sums up her drive to succeed in this humming, foreign world: 'Take the honey with milk, drink of it before the rising of the sun, and there shall be something in thy heart that is divine.'" --Melanie Lauwers, Cape Cod Times Books editor "Warm and funny, Beeing is a charming memoir of a year of discovery...Thomas' enchantment with her bees is infectious and stirs in the reader that childish sense of wonder that too often lies dormant in adult hearts."--Intermezzo "I give (the author) high points for her courage and stick-to-it-iveness. Good reading and not just for apiarists."--The Buffalo News "Written in a conversational tone, Beeing is a fun jaunt from one comedic episode to the next."--Orion magazine "She¿s written a story that will appeal to readers who have a dream they love to mentally indulge but can¿t imagine fulfilling. ¿Beeing¿ is poetic, literary, (and) factual. There is a nice balance between the poetry and the hive maintenance, the literary references and the remedies for stings."--The Cape Cod Times ". . . the book is an exciting look at the life of an amateur beekeeper/single mom. . . . Written in a conversational tone, Beeing is a fun jaunt from one comedic episode to the next. And when the author starts gearing up for her second season beekeeping, you know she's found her niche." --Jennifer Sahn, Orion magazine "The world of bees she enters offers her an intimate look at nature's workaday world apart from her own everyday life. Her sharp prose brings readers into that space comfortably. Thomas tells her tale with skills of observation worthy of a sleuth; what's more, she relates sentiment without sentimentality. Those abilities enable her to take on a genre which easily strays toward wheel-spinning and navel-gazing and make it captivating and suspenseful." - James Heflin, The Valley Advocate, Northampton, Massachusetts. "Beeing is the story of a young mother who, with no prior preparation whatsoever, takes up beekeeping. I give her high points for courage and stick-to-it-iveness. Good reading and not just for apiarists." --Buffalo News "Beeing is a must-read for those recovering from painful experiences. Thomas' narrow and focused approach in documenting just one year, and centering that documentation on one main activity, is refreshing. Thomas' writing about bees is accessible and her story of learning how to tend them is in no way pedantic. The book's ultimate strength is its author's ability to see, as Emerson once put it, the miraculous in the ordinary. Reading it awakens us to marvelous minutiae of a world we can take for granted." --Hampshire Gazette "This me, "Wonder, anticipation, devotion--all are implicit in this scrupulous writing." -- The New York Times Book Review, "Wonder, anticipation, devotion--all are implicit in this scrupulous writing." --The New York Times Book Review, "Thomas writes with the gentle precision of a master." --Newsweek "Through Rosanne Daryl Thomas's witty prose the reader is catapulted into a land where bee colonies, with the ever-swarmed queen, prove to be remarkably similar to human society...In between her Ball jars of sugar honey and countless trips to True Value hardware, we also come to know August, and amazing little girl who is able to encourage her mother's spiritual growth while acting like a regular kid." -- St. Petersburg Times Review

Dewey Decimal638/.1/0974

LC Classification NumberSF523.3.T56 2002