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Teach Yourself Beekeeping: The ideal introduction for anyone to become and amateur or professional beekeeper (Teach Yourself: Animals)

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"Teach Yourself Beekeeping" is intended to be an introductory work on beekeeping which assumes the reader has no former knowledge of the hobby. I am interested in starting a hive in the near future so thought this would be a good place to start after having watched a number of interesting youtube videos on the subject.

This book is certainly helpful and seemingly thorough on the topics it covers. There are color illustrations (about 16 pages) and a few diagrams which help illustrate the text.

The author's writing style is easy to follow and in that regard, I feel I gained a general understanding of beekeeping. Unfortunately, the chapter on hive details was quite sparse with no clear diagram as to the components of a hive. This an area I thought most important, so in that regard the book was quite disappointing.

Another problem I found with the book was that the author was British and is writing to a British audience (I live in North America). This affects his discussion on equipment, weather, and general practices (among other things).

The book is small and has 141 pages of written material. It is a quick read and in that regard, takes little time to gain some useful information. I suspect there are a lot better introductory books available and so in that regard, I only rate this book 3 stars.

This little book is written in a simplified language for newcomers or beginners in beekeeping. the book is not illustrated and avoids the scientific jargon and is written as a useful introduction to arouse the awareness and interest among the ordinary people to become beekeepers.

I ordered this book from my library to see if I may like to buy it. When I got the book, I was shocked to realize that the cover photo was made with a dead bee. How can I respect the author/authors for this kind of obvious lack of respect for their readers.