If Only They Could Talk: The Classic Memoir of a 1930s Vet

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Details which escaped me on my first reading of All Creatures Great and Small, due to my being nine.

When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. And many of the ones that supposedly occur in the 1930s and '40s are based on things that actually happened in the '60s and '70s, when he was writing. Martin's Press in New York City, received a copy and arranged to have the first two books published as a single volume in the United States. Such a warm and cosy read too - in spite of the often harsh life being described (it was freezing up on the Yorkshire moors in winter). Contohnya pas Sigfried menekankan pentingnya kebersihan dalam penanganan kasus hewan, malah jadi konyol karena ternyata kondisi di lapangan tidak berjalan sesuai harapan.

Ada banyak sekali kelucuan saat Siegfried yang sok efisien harus terperangkap prinsip-prinsipnya, atau sekedar oleh kepikunannya yang luar biasa. Ja esi sirdī dzīvnieku mīlis, šī grāmata ir jāizlasa- humors savijoties ar ikdienas skarbumu pavērs durvju šķirbiņu uz 30. Having loved and watched the original series on tv and then thoroughly enjoyed the recent new adaptation I thought I'd give it a go. In this book at least, there's really nothing heavy, it's all just entertaining, fun, and light, but very well written. Herriot’s stories rely on numerous autobiographical elements taken from his life in northern England’s Yorkshire County, and they depict a simple, rustic world deeply in touch with the cycles of nature.

Herriot εμπνέεται από την ζωή του και την εργασιακή του εμπειρία ως κτηνίατρος και μάς μεταφέρει στην επαρχιακή Αγγλία της δεκαετίας του '30 'χτίζοντας' σταδιακά μια ξεκαρδιστική ιστορία γεμάτη ηθογραφικά στοιχεία και αστεία περιστατικά με κατοικίδια ζώα. Alf Wight, seorang dokter hewan dari Yorkshire, menovelisasi hidupnya dan menggunakan nama samaran James Herriot.As a lover of animals from a family of animal fanatics, I've been recommended the James Herriot books more times than I can remember. I last read Herriot years and years ago so rereading his books was a nice reminder of those books and of course the TV series on SABC and the BBC. Heartbreaking and hilarious in equal measure, If Only They Could Talk is a book for all those who find laughter and joy in animals, and who know and understand the magic and beauty of Britain’s wild places. It's James Herriot (not his true name) telling about his life in the UK as a country vet in the 1930s.