Signed in blue flair on the half-title page: "Best wishes/ James Herriot." In an attractive, complete dust jacket with a photographic scene of James Herriot and his dog on the front panel. Very clean and tight throughout with spectacular photographs of Herriot's Yorkshire. Lovely photographic endpapers of the Yorkshire Dales. Handsomely bound in sturdily woven green cloth and stamped brightly in gold lettering along the spine. James Herriot is married, with a son who is a veterinary surgeon and a daughter who is a doctor. Outside his work, his interests are music, football and dog-walking. Except for wartime service in the RAF he has never left Yorkshire, and he still works with Siegfried Farnon, the colourful character in his books. After qualifying he went to work in the Yorkshire Dales.
He grew up in Scotland and went to Glasgow Veterinary College. James Herriot is still a practising veterinary surgeon. This is a book for those who love animals, the country and laughter. And behind it all three is a constant awareness of the countryside, the stark beauty of the high Yorkshire dales. The doctoring of animals is interwoven with triumph and failure, humour and sadness. As James Herriot's thoughts wander back over the rich memories from his life as a veterinary surgeon, a host of new characters and old friends, animal and human, march across the pages, all revealing Herriot himself with his dedication to the job and his unequalled capacity for seeing the silly side of things.
The book is about those things and the eternal fascinating challenge of veterinary work. He tells us of his experiences in air force blue, looking at service life with characteristic dry humour, but his heart is still in the green hills of Yorkshire, with his newly-married wife and his animal patients. SYNOPSIS: The new book by James Herriot finds the young vet from Glasgow thrown into another new environment in the RAF. MOVIE/TV TIE-IN: James Herriot's writings were the basis for a 1975 Made for Television movie and a 1978 television series, both entitled All Creatures Great and Small. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped) Lightly Creased Lightly Chipped Moderate Yellowing Due to Age In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK: Spine Bumped Light Shelf Rub to Boards Edges Moderately Soiled Moderate Yellowing Due to Age.
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