The Real James Herriot: A Memoir of My Father

Author: Wight, JamesBrand: Ballantine BooksColor: GreyEdition: NO-VALUEBinding: PaperbackFormat: Picture BookNumber Of Pages: 400Release Date: 01-05-2001Part Number: IllustratedDetails: No one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally bestselling author. Now, in this warm and poignant memoir, Jim Wight talks about his father--the beloved veterinarian whom his family had to share with half the world. Alf Wight (aka James Herriot) grew up in Glasgow, where he lived during a happy rough-and-tumble childhood and then through the challenging years of training at the Glasgow Veterinary College. The story of how the young vet later traveled to the small Yorkshire town of Thirsk, aka Darrowby, to take the job of assistant vet is one that is well known through James Herriot's internationally celebrated books and the popular All Creatures Great and Small television se