![]() His journey across the Yorkshire dales, and his encounters with humans and dogs, cows, and kittens are lovingly told by Christopher Timothy with all the fascination, affection, and joy that suffuses Dr. Now as then, All Creatures Great and Small is full of humor, warmth, pathos, drama, and James Herriot's love of life. Photograph: RDImages/Epics/Getty Jennifer Vineyard Mon 06:00 Beginning at the age of 50, the beloved vet James Alfred Wight. How will he get on with his new boss? With the local farmers? And what will the animals think? This program is filled with hilarious and touching tales of the unpredictable Siegfried Farnon, Siegfried's zany brother, Tristan, and Herriot's first encounters with a beautiful girl called Helen. James Herriot, aka Dr James Alfred Wight, in 1982. In this first volume of memoirs, then-newly-qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby and he has no idea what to expect. The book has been adapted for two television series, both titled All Creatures Great and Small. Herriot has become one of the most universally loved authors of our time. Darrowby is a fictional village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, which was created by author Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot as the setting for the veterinary practice in his book It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet. And in the three decades that followed, Dr. But within a year, the book became recognized as a masterpiece. Born in Sunderland, Wight graduated from Glasgow Veterinary College in 1939, returning to England to become a veterinary surgeon in Yorkshire, where he practised for almost 50 years. ![]() When this book was first published, it was merely a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. James Alfred Wight OBE FRCVS (3 October 1916 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name James Herriot, was a British veterinary surgeon and author. Delve into the magical, unforgettable world of James Herriot, the world's most beloved veterinarian, and his menagerie of heartwarming, funny, and tragic animal patients. ![]()
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