
Pages
378
Rating
4.34
Year
1976
Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners.
Endorsements
"A very warm, very engaging read... The reader falls totally under his spell." — Associated Press
"Humor, realism, sensitivity, earthiness; animals comic and tragic; and people droll, pathetic, courageous, eccentric—all of whom he views with the same gentle compassion and a lively sense of the sad, the ridiculous, and the admirable." — Columbus Dispatch