All Creatures Great and Small: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor (Audiobook) by James Herriot, Christopher Timothy

from browner56

In the late 1930s, during the period near the end of the Great Depression but before the world went to war, a young Scotsman graduates from veterinary school and looks for any job he can get. His search leads him to accepting a position as an associate at a small practice in the Yorkshire dales, ...

from ASBiskey

While visiting my parents, I needed something to read. Perusing their shelves, I came upon All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot and decided to start it, as I have a copy at home to continue with when I left. I have read all of the All Creatures Great and Small books in the past and watc...

from clif_hiker

Not much I can say that hasn't been said before... a timeless classic that I've reread a number of times. I enjoy each reading as much as the first, laughing and tearing up over the familiar stories and characters.

from bookworm12

When I was young I wanted to be an author and a vet when I grew up. Knowing this, my parents introduced me to the writing of James Herriot, who was both. Later I decided that having to fiddle with animal innards everyday is not the same as owning pets and I veered more towards the writing side of...

from atimco

If you need an antidote to the depressing postmodern inanities we are forced to read in college, read Herriot. If you're tired of literary pretension and pomposity, read Herriot. If you're looking for humor and a warm humanity set against a backdrop of wild, breathtaking natural beauty - well, yo...