Customer Ratings:

• Great introduction. Great little introduction to Bee keeping, a must for anyone who is interested & wants to find out more before committing & joining a local group.
• Great first bee book. This is a great first book for anyone interested in keeping bees.
  
  Beekeeping is incredibly complicated and detailed, and many other books get down into the depths very quickly, and can be confusing. This book pitches the level just right, enough detail to be useful, but easily accessible and simple to understand. In only 96 pages, the author covers alot of ground though if you are serious about keeping bees yourself, you ll need some other books later on.
• Really interesting and informative. Interesting book providing all the basic information you need as a potential new bee keeper
• Just the job. The perfect primer for someone with an interest in, but no knowledge of, beekeeping. Gives enough information and inspiration to enable the reader to make sense of the more detailed works, such as Bees and Honey which must be tackled later on. A great first book.
• A great little book. This book is an excellent, gentle introduction to the world of bee keeping. Having decided to read-up on the art/science, I purchased a number of books which are aimed at the beginner/novice. Whilst they are all pretty much the same, this is the one I have on standby for a little light reading when the fancy takes me, and the hand drawn pictures are fantastic.
  Simple, easy to understand theory, this book gentle leads you from one subject to the next building on previous chapters as it goes. It is also nice that it is a UK book rather than an Americanised one such as Bee Keeping for Dummies (also excellent and defiantly worth buying as your slightly more advance book).
  Whilst this does not have enough information for scientific types or more learned bee enthusiasts, it will give you all the information needed to make a decision whether or not to attend your local association lectures (which are a must) before embarking upon your new hobby!

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