All
Creatures Great and Small
by James Herriot
(Mass Market Paperback - April 1998)
All
Things Wise and Wonderful/the Lord God Made Them All
by James Herriot
(Hardcover - November 1999)
All
Things Bright and Beautiful [ABRIDGED]
by James Herriot, Christopher Timothy (Narrator)
(Audio Cassette - October 1996)
All
Things Wise and Wonderful [UNABRIDGED]
by James Herriot
(Audio Cassette - November 1996)
The
Best of James Herriot: Favourite Memories of a Country Vet
by James Herriot
Book Description: The Best of James Herriot is one of the most
extraordinary volumes ever devoted to the work and world of a contemporary
writer. Within its covers are unforgettable episodes from the remarkable
series of memoirs that began with All Creatures Great and Small-"the ones
my family and I have laughed at over the years and the ones my readers
have said they most enjoyed," as Herriot, himself, put it. Yet the book
is far more than a simple anthology: Its gorgeous pages also include hundreds
of line drawings and color photographs, capturing Herriot's Yorkshire in
a worthy complement to the writer's words.
The 1991 publication of Every Living Thing, rendered the original edition
of this book incomplete. This fall will mark the publication of the complete,
definitive edition with the addition of five of his best, more recent stories,
as well as new art. Once again The Best of James Herriot becomes the quintessential
Herriot volume-one of those invaluable books that will be loved as much
in decades to come as it is today.
(Hardcover - October 1998)
Bonny's
Big Day
by James Herriot, Ruth Brown (Illustrator)
(Paperback - October 1991)
Every
Living Thing
by James Herriot
(Mass Market Paperback - April 1996)
The
Lord God Made Them All [ABRIDGED]
by James Herriot
(Audio Cassette - November 1996)
James
Herriot's Dog Stories
by James Herriot
(Mass Market Paperback - August 1993)
Oscar,
Cat-About-Town
by James Herriot, Ruth Brown (Illustrator)
(Paperback - May 1993)
Only
One Woof
by James Herriot, et al
(Paperback - May 1993)
James
Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet
by Graham Lord
(Paperback - November 1998)
Moses
the Kitten
by James Herriot, Peter Barrett (Illustrator)
(Paperback - October 1991)
James
Herriot's Animal Stories [ABRIDGED]
by James Herriot, Christopher Timothy (Reader)
(Audio Cassette - October 1997)
James
Herriot's Cat Stories
by James Herriot, Lesley Holmes (Illustrator)
(Hardcover - September 1994)
James
Herriot's Treasury for Children
by James Herriot, et al
(Hardcover - October 1992)
The
Real James Herriot : A Memoir of My Father
by James Wight
The name Alf Wight may not ring too many bells, but as James Herriot--the
author who brought the British countryside into millions of homes--Wight
certainly made an impressive mark. He grew up in Glasgow and enjoyed a
boisterous childhood before deciding to embark on many years of training
at the Glasgow Veterinary College. Wight finally qualified as a vet in
1939 and moved to the Yorkshire town of Thirsk to accept a position as
assistant to Dr. Donald Sinclair--the man known to millions of readers
as Siegfried Farnan.
The story of the young vet travelling to Thirsk (a.k.a. Darrowby) was
immortalized in Herriot's bestselling books. But The Real James Herriot,
Jim Wight's affectionate biography of his father, tells the story of the
man behind the nom de plume, who worked in the same practice for over 50
years and was relatively untouched and unimpressed by his fame as an author.
Wight the younger (who followed in his father's footsteps and later joined
the practice in Thirsk), is undoubtedly the best person to reveal the depths
of a man whose public persona was as respected and trusted as the real
man who tended to animals in and around the small Yorkshire village where
he lived until the day he died. Written with a tenderness that does nothing
to detract from the honesty of the book, The Real James Herriot is a fitting,
poignant, and often gently humorous portrait of a man who brought so much
pleasure through his writing while remaining consistently faithful to the
profession that was, ultimately, his first and last love. --Susan Harrison,
Amazon.co.uk
Paperback from Ballantine Books
Book Published: 01 May, 2001 |
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