All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet

Find All Creatures Great and Small: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor read by Nicholas Ralph star of the new PBS Masterpiece series on Audible.These are the stories that catapulted James Herriot to literary fame. When this book was first published it was a simple volume of memoirs by an unknown Scottish veterinarian. But within a year the book became recognized as a masterpiece. And in the two and a half decades that followed Dr. Herriot became one of the most universally loved authors of our time.In this first volume of his memoirs then-newly-qualified vet James Herriot arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby and he has no idea what to expect. How will he get on with his new boss? The local farmers? And what will the animals think? This program is filled with hilarious and touching tales of the unpredictable Siegfried Farnon his charming student brother Tristan and Herriot's first encounters with a beautiful girl named Helen.Now as then All Creatures Great and Small is full of humor warmth pathos drama and James Herriot's love of life. 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. Herriot's works.