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All Things Bright and Beautiful

The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

James Herriot

All Things Bright and Beautiful
All Things Bright and Beautiful

All Things Bright and Beautiful

The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet

James Herriot

Paperback | English
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Description

The highs and lows of being a vet in the Yorkshire Dales are perfectly captured in James Herriot's All Things Bright and Beautiful. This omnibus edition comprises the majority of chapters from Let Sleeping Vets Lie and Vets in Harness.

Bulls with sunstroke, pigs on the run and a cake-eating Peke with a betting habit . . . I grew up reading James Herriot's book and I'm delighted that thirty years on they are still every bit as charming, heartwarming and laugh-out-loud funny as they were then.

The attraction of Herriot's ever popular memoirs of a country vet . . . is their alternating highs and lows, humour and pathos, and gripping anecdotes about delivering lambs, grumpy farmers, hypochondriac pet-owners, stroppy cows and blunt Yorkshire characters. And, of course, there's a powerful nostalgia element in these stories about our green and pleasant land in the day before the ravages of ribbon development.

Herriot's enchanting tales of life in the Dales are deservedly classics. Full of extraordinary characters, animal and human, the books never fail to delight

On original release in the 1970s, James Herriot's insights into the life of a working vet were so popular and enchanting to readers that the area of the Yorkshire Dales in which he practised became known as 'James Herriot country'.

James Herriot grew up in Glasgow and qualified as a veterinary surgeon at Glasgow Veterinary College. Shortly afterwards he took up a position as an assistant in a North Yorkshire practice where he remained, with the exception of his wartime service in the RAF, until his death in 1995. He wrote many books about Yorkshire country life, including some for children, but he is best known for his memoirs, beginning with If Only They Could Talk. The books were televised in the enormously popular series All Creatures Great and Small.

Specifications

  • Publisher
    Pan Books
  • Pub date
    Sep 2020
  • Pages
    496
  • Theme
    Memoirs
  • Dimensions
    198 x 130 x 34 mm
  • Weight
    336 gram
  • EAN
    9781529043280
  • Paperback
    Paperback
  • Language
    English

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