
Revery
A Year of Bees
Jenna Butler(Author)
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
Published on 20. October 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-1-989496-13-8 (ISBN)
Description
After five years of working with bees on her farm in northern Alberta, Jenna Butler shares with the reader the rich experience of keeping hives. Starting with a rare bright day in late November as the bees are settling in for winter she takes us through a year in beekeeping on her small piece of the boreal forest. Weaving together her personal story with the practical aspects of running a farm she takes us into the worlds of honeybees and wild bees. She considers the twinned development of the canola and honey industries in Alberta and the impact of crop sprays, debates the impact of introduced flowers versus native flowers, the effect of colony collapse disorder and the protection of natural environments for wild bees. But this is also the story of women and bees and how beekeeping became Jenna Butler's personal survival story.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
174 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-989496-13-8 (9781989496138)
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E-Book
10/2020
1st Edition
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
€10.99
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Person
Jenna Butler is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry, Seldom Seen Road, Wells, and Aphelion; an award-winning collection of ecological essays, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail; and a travelogue, Magnetic North: Sea Voyage to Svalbard. Her sixth book, a collection of essays titled Revery: A Year of Bees, appeared with Wolsak & Wynn in 2020 and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Nonficiton.