Reviews for Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual

The average rating for Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-09-13 00:00:00 Darren Lyles A bee-keeper at the farmer's market in Raleigh told me that this was the last word in bee-keeping. That seems doubtful. I didn't read every word, and it was certainly a neat read in many respects, but not in the practical way I was hoping. Langstroth, himself, was a rural Ohio Episcople priest who was given to melancholy and turned to bees as an expression of the now-obsolere amature naturalist. (See Mendel, et al.) In all the ways that the book reflectsthat tradition (as well as the type setting and wood cuts) it's a great book. As a field manual for someone wanting to keep bees, it was less helpful.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-19 00:00:00 Michael Breeden The good Reverend sure knew his bees. However, for somebody who did a sermon every week he wasn't as smooth at slipping in the biblical references as I would have thought. The preachy parts weren't at all overly preachy, but the didn't flow particularly well. For that matter, flow was an issue in general. Have to give him high marks for creativity and keen insights. He changed the beekeeping world, no doubt about it. It's striking to read a work from the 1850's that articulates almost all the same issues that are around today (with the exception of pesticides). Seemed rather long and in the last chapter he said so himself!