Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97065 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 464 pages

Customer Reviews

Great historical beekeeping book!
Great book! I'm going to read it again. There is much to be learned from ole triple-L.

More modern books are the ones I depend upon for day-to-day use. Also, I'd recommend The Hive and the Honey Bee from Dadant for a more up to date and much thicker book.

The only complaints I have are for Dover. The price is too high. The print is fairly small in the main portion of the text but it's extremely small in the footnotes. Since some of the footnotes are very long this is a real problem. Also, it must have been printed from photographic copies instead of typeset. Many of the letters of the alphabet are chopped off and it sometimes takes a bit to understand what word was intended.

As far as content I give it 5 stars but for quality of printing it gets 3 stars. Average that out to 4 stars.

"Bees and being"
In my beginning-beekeeping family, my husband reads the practical books; I read Langstroth, who tends to rhapsodize on the love and concern shown the queen by her daughters, and that sort of thing. Any beekeeper (and we may all have this bent) who loves thinking about the implications of bees almost as much as working with the furry little creatures themselves will love spending time with this rambling, philosophical naturalist.

A real beekeeper's time machine
I've been keeping bees now for a year and thought it would be neat to read this classic text without spending hundreds of dollars for an original copy on ebay. Rev. Langstroth's writing style is really beautiful and definately gives the reader a visual in your mind. It's so interesting to see how science and religion were so closly mixed during this time period. I love how he affirms creation through the science of bees. Very cool book but because of the older style ornate writing it can be difficult to read at times.