- Title:
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All Creatures Great and Small: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet
- Series:
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All Creatures Great and Small #1
- Written by:
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James Herriot
- Read by:
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Nicholas Ralph
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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13
- Duration:
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15 hours 22 minutes
- Published:
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January 01 2021
- Available Date:
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January 01 2021
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529065664
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Autobiography; Memoirs
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small.
Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pig called Nugent and an overweight Pekingese called Tricki Woo, James finds he is on a learning curve as steep as the hills around him. And when he meets Helen, the beautiful daughter of a local farmer, all the training and experience in the world can’t help him …
Since they were first published, James Herriot’s memoirs have sold millions of copies and entranced generations of animal lovers. Charming, funny and touching, All Creatures Great and Small is a heart-warming story of determination, love and companionship from one of Britain’s best-loved authors.
'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.'
The Daily Mail
'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.'
Kate Humble