Herriot – A Vet’s Life

Written by W R Mitchell

£15.99 £13.75

Book condition

This book is brand new

Book details

Hardback:

160 pages

Publisher:

Great Northern Books Ltd 2010

Language:

English

ISBN:

9781905080779

Book description

Bill Mitchell was recently voted the Yorkshire Dales National Park’s greatest living cultural icon in a poll to mark the 60th anniversary of each UK National Park. In the same poll, Alf Wight – much better known as James Herriot, the celebrated vet – won the same accolade in a second category as an icon who had died but was still revered. Herriot – A Vet’s Life sees the two reunited, with Bill Mitchell as the author and Alf as the main character. Alf’s son Jim followed in his footsteps to become a vet and often accompanied Alf on his rounds. Both applied their veterinary skills to ailing farmstock and household pets in the Pennine dales and across the North York Moors. W R (Bill) Mitchell gathered much of his information from interviews with father and son. In compiling this fully illustrated book, Bill could not resist adding Herriot-like tales of Dales characters he met as a long-time editor of “The Dalesman”, in a colourful period overlapping that known to Alf.

W R Mitchell

W.R. (Bill) Mitchell was born in Skipton in 1928. After gaining…

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Book tags

• Alf Wright,
• Animals,
• Great Northern Books Ltd,
• Vet,
• Best selling,
• Biography