It Shouldn'T Happen To A Vet
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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From the windswept Yorkshire Dales comes one of the most beloved and uproarious memoirs in British literary history — It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet chronicles the chaotic, mud-splattered, and thoroughly hilarious second chapter in the life of James Herriot, a young country veterinarian whose daily rounds bring him face-to-face with ornery livestock, eccentric farmers, and animals of every temperament imaginable. Whether he is wrestling a calf into the world at midnight, outsmarting a belligerent bull, or being comprehensively humiliated by a pampered house cat, Herriot presents each misadventure with the warmth and comic precision of a natural storyteller. The result is a portrait of rural England that is as tender as it is funny, grounded in the authentic rhythms of agricultural life in the 1930s and 1940s. Writing under his now-iconic pen name, Alf Wight crafted a series of autobiographical tales that transcend mere anecdote to become genuine celebrations of the human-animal bond and the resilient communities that form around it. His prose is deceptively simple — warm, self-deprecating, and shot through with an irresistible affection for both his patients and their owners. This volume, which served as the basis for the beloved All Creatures Great and Small film and television adaptations, continues to win new generations of readers with its honest humour and its quiet, profound humanity. Could any profession, one wonders, be quite so richly, magnificently disastrous?
Author: James Herriot
Format: Paperback
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the windswept Yorkshire Dales comes one of the most beloved and uproarious memoirs in British literary history — It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet chronicles the chaotic, mud-splattered, and thoroughly hilarious second chapter in the life of James Herriot, a young country veterinarian whose daily rounds bring him face-to-face with ornery livestock, eccentric farmers, and animals of every temperament imaginable. Whether he is wrestling a calf into the world at midnight, outsmarting a belligerent bull, or being comprehensively humiliated by a pampered house cat, Herriot presents each misadventure with the warmth and comic precision of a natural storyteller. The result is a portrait of rural England that is as tender as it is funny, grounded in the authentic rhythms of agricultural life in the 1930s and 1940s. Writing under his now-iconic pen name, Alf Wight crafted a series of autobiographical tales that transcend mere anecdote to become genuine celebrations of the human-animal bond and the resilient communities that form around it. His prose is deceptively simple — warm, self-deprecating, and shot through with an irresistible affection for both his patients and their owners. This volume, which served as the basis for the beloved All Creatures Great and Small film and television adaptations, continues to win new generations of readers with its honest humour and its quiet, profound humanity. Could any profession, one wonders, be quite so richly, magnificently disastrous?