His stories, based on his experiences as a young veterinary surgeon working in Yorkshire, captivated a worldwide audience and turned this modest and unassuming man into a celebrity, something that he could never quite understand. His plans to maintain his anonymity were to backfire badly within a short time he was to become the most famous veterinarian in the world. Don’t tell anyone though, he continued, I am writing under the pseudonym of James Herriot and I do not want anyone to know who I really am! MY BOOK IS GOING TO BE PUBLISHED, JIM! said my father, Alf Wight, to me one day in the autumn of 1969. rival any from British fiction.” ― Los Angeles Times Read moreĪll Creatures Great and Small & All Things Bright and Beautiful Hilarious, touching, athletic and warming . . . “One of the funniest and most likeable books around.” - The Atlantic Praise for All Creatures Great and Small: Perhaps better than any other writer, Herriot reveals the ties that bind us to the creatures in our lives. This witty and heartwarming collection, based on the author’s own experiences, became an international success, winning over animal lovers everywhere. In these pages, Herriot trains under his eccentric boss in a rustic English village, courts the woman that becomes his wife, and meets the people he would come to write about for a lifetime. From night visits to drafty barns during freezing Northern England winters to the beautiful vitality of rural life in the summertime to the colorful menagerie of animals-and their owners-that pass through his office, Herriot experiences new challenges and joys every day.
A stranger in an unfamiliar land, James Herriot must quickly learn the odd dialect and humorous ways of the locals, master outdated equipment, and do his best to mend, treat, and heal pets and livestock alike.Īll Things Bright and Beautiful: After his first day on the job, Herriot’s mentor warns him that the life of a country veterinarian is full of small triumphs and big disasters, but that he’d never be bored.
The first two memoirs in the New York Times–bestselling series from an English veterinarian-and the basis for the Masterpiece series on PBS.Īll Creatures Great and Small: In the rolling dales of Yorkshire-a simple, rural region of Northern England-a young veterinarian from Sunderland joins a new practice.
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