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This book lives up to its title. An excellent book to get you started, with plenty for the experienced beekeeper. --Smallholder March 2009
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A fascinating hobby; a remunerative business; or a globetrotting career? Which type of beekeeper do you want to be? It is entirely up to you: beekeeping can provide it all.Beekeeping can provide anyone with an interesting and useful hobby or a lucrative and rewarding business. It is recognised as a vital agricultural industry and can therefore also offer you a globe trotting career. The whole subject is, however, often shrouded in mystery and loaded with jargon, leaving many people unaware of its true potential or how to start. This book strips away all the mystery and explains step by step how - from day one - you can start beekeeping as a hobby; how you can progress to running a beekeeping business; or how you can start a career as a beekeeper which can quite easily take you all over the world. No other guide explains in such detail the true potential and accessibility of beekeeping or of being a beekeeper.
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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book and have read it cover to cover. There isn't much in here that you wouldn't get in other beekeeping books but the way it is written has made this the most useful bee book I have read so far. The author is an experienced beekeeper who has tried everything and he just tells you what works (and is honest about where he went wrong). The style is easy to read, there is no waffle, just the nuts and bolts. It really is a practical manual. I have several other beekeeping books but this one will be my reference from now on- the others will be the back up. The illustrations are limited, as are the photos, I would like to have seen more. The book seems mostly written for the UK but has advice suited to other locations too (the author has kept bees commercially in Spain and New Zealand). Highly recommended to beginner and journeyman beekeepers.
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have kept bees commercially in South America and New Zealand for many years and I didn't think that any new beekeeping book would teach me much more about beekeeping. However a colleague recommended 'A Practical manual of Beekeeping' and I'm very glad that I read it. I learned an enormous amount. What other beekeeping manual will tell you how to safely make invert sugar syrup, or how to easily test for HMF levels in your own honey or how to test for Nosema in the field and David Cramp introduces bee genetics in a way that even I can understand - and there is so much more it is that comprehensive. Certainly no other book that I have read (and I have read most) has so much useful, practical, up to date and science based information on beekeeping. I really recommend it for both experienced and novice beekeepers whether commercial or hobbyists. It is easy to read, very comprehensive, written with humour and written by a very experienced and knowledgeable beekeeper and like the same authors 'Beekeepers Field Guide' this book will stay by my side while I continue beekeeping.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Individuals and published reviews quote Ted Hoopers book as No1. I don't have the knowledge to disagree but as a relatively inexperienced keeper I found that he wrote with an assumption of prior knowledge in his readership. This book does not. It has given me the confidence to undertake most inspections and manipulations of my colonies during the first year and just as importantly, when I have returned to other texts - Like Hooper I have then understood the text and taken the benefit. That may be a combination of practical experience as well as prior reading but I recommend this book for a structured, approachable, informative and at times amusing style. I have read fairly widely now and for me this book rates No1 for new to intermediate readers as a good all round reference and introduction.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Excellent book for everyone from beginners to experienced beekeepers
This book gives all the information you need to become a safe and efficient beekeeper. Very detailed with many excellent illustrations. Read more
Published 14 days ago by Cornishmaid
Gift
Sorry I'm not much help as a review ,I'm keeping this book as a gift for my son who has become interested in Bee keeping
Published 1 month ago by Amy
My beekeeping bible
I only started beekeeping last year, and this book has being my guide during all this time. I have read it and read it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by RoMac
A Practical Manual Of BEEKEEPING
Being a new bee keeper this year,i have a few books but this one is so easy to understand, its the first bee keeping book i am enjoying to read, as a rookie bee keeper i would... Read more
Published 5 months ago by steveuk
just so useful.
This book together with the local bee association, has fully guided our village bee group, over three years to expanded to 9 hives. Read more
Published 6 months ago by judi
BEEKEEPING
I HAVEN'T KEPT BEES FOR SOME YEARS BUT HOPE TO START AGAIN SOON.I NEEDED A NEW MODERN GUIDE,THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK,CLEARLY LAID OUT. Read more
Published 13 months ago by RICHARD H.
keep the husband busy
I bought these books for my husband as he had shown an interest in bees for a while now - they have proved to him how hard it is to keep bees and so he has decided to stick to... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Vanessa Davies
Every bit as good as Hooper's standard work
It's written in a lively and interesting, personal, tone - with plenty of anecdotes from his long career in beekeeping. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Stephen Summers
Highly Recommended
I've been beekeeping for about seven years and whilst of course it's impossible to effectively learn the craft from books alone, a good reference book helps reinforce experience... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Ian
Sound step by step practical advice...
Comprehensive coverage of most aspects of bee keeping. Written in a laid-back style, without dogma, yet set out in a logical format. Read more
Published 21 months ago by D. Currie
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