All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet - Tapa blanda

James Herriot's stories about his life as a vet in Yorkshire have charmed and delighted millions of readers in the twenty years since his first book If Only They Could Talk was published in 1972. All Things Bright and Beautiful is the second James Herriot omnibus and contains Lets Sleeping Vets Lie and Vet in Harness. All James Herriot's books, including two other omnibus editions, All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Wise and Wonderful, are availalbe in Pan.

James Herriot, a pseudonym for James Alfred Wight, grew up in Glasgow and qualified as a veterinary surgeon at Glasgow Veterinary College. Shortly afterwards he took up a position as an assistant in a North Yorkshire practice where he remained, with the exception of his wartime service in the RAF, until his death in 1995. He wrote many books about Yorkshire country life, including some for children, but he is best known for his memoirs, which begin with If Only They Could Talk. The books were televised in the enormously popular series All Creatures Great and Small.