Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Agriculture - Beekeeping

In the summer of 2016 retired broadcaster Paul Ashton made an astounding discovery at a car boot sale in Sussex. He found a copy of Sherlock Holmes's Practical Handbook of Bee Culture, and bought it for 2. No other copy of this legendary volume - the only book Holmes wrote - has ever come to light.

The Handbook is the journal kept by Holmes from 1904 to 1912. 1904 was the year he retired from active investigation and moved to a farmhouse in East Dean. In 1912 he came out of retirement and left East Dean in order to outwit the German spy network in Britain on the eve of World War...

Seit drei Generationen betreibt Familie Robson eine Berufsimkerei in der Grenzregion von Schottland und Nordengland. Im Tiefland erlauben die erstklassigen landwirtschaftlich genutzten FlAchen ihren BienenvOlkern den Nektar von zahlreichen Trachtpflanzen zu sammeln insbesondere vom Raps. Es ist jedoch der SpAtsommer, den sich die Imker herbeiwUnschen - in der Hoffnung auf eine reiche Ernte des hoch geschAtzten Heidehonigs aus den Heidemooren.

In diesem auergewOhnlichen Buch reflektiert Willie Robson Uber die jahrelange Bienenhaltung seiner Familie - und gibt...

Beekeeping at the End of the Earth, an essential read for learning about beekeeping in a cool temperate climate with a focus on Tasmania our island home.

One hundred beekeepers one hundred different ways to keep bees.

Beekeeping At The End Of The Earth is a practical insight into cool climate beekeeping with a focus on Tasmania, our island home.

Richly illustrated with unique diagrams and floral calendar, useful tables and descriptive images, the pictures help tell the story.

Promoting children as the future of beekeeping...

The Anatomy and Dissection of the honey bee was first published in 1962 and yet this book is still the basis of teaching beekeepers the structure of the honey bee and how to dissect one to expose all the components of this amazing insect. Many of the drawings are original plates produced by Major Dade but of course the photographs are more recent and we must thank Dr Alan Potter of Brunel Microscopes for providing some of these in this edition.

As Dr Crane stated in her foreword to the first edition the book has been adopted my many organisations as the seminal text for...