Buy this book on-line BILL, LESLEY E: : For the Love of Bees: the Story of Brother Adam of Buckfast Abbey,UK.NEWTON ABBOT,DEVON,1989. ISBN 0715372611.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, portrait colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with black+brown lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Security tab in situ to inside of rear panel of dw/dj.Top edges with some minimal dust-soiling and marking,fore-edges brighter and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and clean plain white endpapers.UK, slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-159pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,foreword by Eva Crane (OBE DSc.),author's note,12 chapters each with a b/w illustrated chapter head-piece,b/w illus/ maps/diagrams etc.,16pp contemporary b/w auto+ biographical photographs in 1 block,between pp80/1,a bibliography,a chronology and an index; plus [unpaginated] b/w illustrated half-title page (repeated chapter head design) with b/w woodcut-style illustration to it's reverse,title page,and similar chapter headpiece illustrated contents list/table and double-page b/w strip format illustration of The Life of a Worker Bee from Flower to Jar before the index.
'For the Love of Bees' tells the truly remarkable story of the world's foremost beebreeder,Brother Adam OBE,DSc,OSB.As a boy just over eleven years old,he was sent from his home in Southern Germany to join the order of Benedictine monks at Buckfast in Devon at the time of the great rebuilding of the Abbey.Ill-health prompted his move from building work to a lifetime's involvement with the Abbey's apiaries; his development of the beekeeping enterprise is fully described against a backcloth of monastic life.
The disastrous Isle of Wight epidemic which caused wholesale loss of bees in the British Isles at the outbreak of the First World war was to shape the bee-breeding programme that Adam was to follow, which included the study and collection of honey-bees from all countries bordering on the Mediterranean,north and south,
penetrating to the Sahara itself and beyond to east Africa.
Now in his ninetieth year (then 1989),Adam's work continues and his achievements are an inspiration to all would-be beekeepers.
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