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    Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
    Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
    Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor
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    Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor

    Written by James Herriot

    Narrated by Christopher Timothy

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    A perfect gift for anyone who loves animals, this fifth and final installment in James Herriot's heartwarming collection, the basis for the All Creatures Great and Small television series.

    Every Living Thing: The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor brings back familiar friends (including old favorites such as Tricki Woo) and introduces new ones, including Herriot's children Rosie and Jimmy and the marvelously eccentric vet Calum Buchanan.

    This book marks a perfect opportunity for existing fans of Herriot's work to reacquaint themselves with his writing, and for those who've never read him to see what generations of animal lovers have already discovered: James Herriot is that rarest of creatures, a genuine master storyteller.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 2003
    ISBN9781593972110
    Author

    James Herriot

    James Herriot (1916-1995) was the bestselling author of memoirs including All Creatures Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful, All Things Wise and Wonderful, The Lord God Made Them All, and Every Living Thing. At age 23, Herriot qualified for veterinary practice with the Glasgow Veterinary College, and moved to the town of Thirsk in Yorkshire to work in a rural practice. He would live in, work in, and write about the region for the rest of his life. Though he dreamed for years of writing a book, his veterinary work and his family kept him busy, and he did not start writing until the age of 50. In 1979, he was awarded the title Order of the British Empire (OBE). His veterinary practice in Yorkshire, England, is now tended by his son, Jim Wight.

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    • 5/5
      Better than the shows. Wonderful writing and narration. Hilarious at times.
    • 5/5
      This is a fun story along with a vibrant reader.
    • 5/5
      I've read most of his books and all are enjoyable!
    • 1/5
      What a shame. An excellent book harmed by a poor quality compression download.
      Also, other James Herriot titles aren't available to UK subscribers due to copyright reasons in our region - this is despite Scribd charging the more proportionality in Pounds Sterling than US Dollars.
    • 5/5
      Fantastic book! It will transport you to the English countryside and introduce you to wonderful characters. The stories brought up a broad spectrum of feelings. Very well written and with a good dose of humor. I will definitely read more by this author.
    • 5/5
      Oh, how I loved this book! I laughed until I cried when I read his experience with the introduction of artificial insemination in cattle. This was a poignant story, in many ways, as it showed the original trio of James, Sigfried and Tristan had grown up and moved on with their adult lives. A wonderful conclusion to the series. As always, James Herriot brought me to laughter and tears in the same book. This is a must-read for any animal lover. I also enjoyed the audio book. There aren't too many books I want to read/hear more than once, but I return to James Herriot over and over.
    • 4/5
      Overall a great series. I can see why it’s still such a classic and still merits TV adaptations.
    • 4/5
      The fifth book in the series, Herriot is still running his Yorkshire veterinary practice along with Siegfried. Tristam has left to start his own practice and has been replaced by other young vets, eventually by Calum. Upon moving into the upstairs flat, this new vet quickly acquires his own menagerie of badgers, dogs, foxes, and even an owl, leading to more outbursts from Siegfried.James and Helen need to find a more modern house but get outbid at every turn, and James befriends an old man and his cat who have set up their tent along the road.Funny and gentle despite the graphic depictions of veterinary emergencies, I'd like to read the whole series.
    • 5/5
      A few years ago I stayed in a wonderful B&B in Thirsk, Yorkshire that was also an animal refuge. I went up to the World of James Herriot and spent a fabulous few hours wandering through their interesting collection of the life of a Yorkshire veterinarian. Therefore, I was happy to come across another one of his books.It's a series of vignettes about the people of the area and their animals. Often funny but never malicious, Mr. Wight imbues his neighbors and friends with a compassionate and poignant view of their lives. Most are farmers, living a hard life in the Dales, but the stories are so well written and truly takes the reader away. It's a lovely area and I was happy to indulge in views of the Yorkshire countryside once more.
    • 5/5
      I am reading James Herriot's well-known series of books out of order. The five books are about his life as a veterinarian, mostly of large animals such as cows and sheep, in England. EVERY LIVING THING is the last book in the series. I read the third book in the series first and loved it so much that I grabbed EVERY LIVING THING when I found it on the shelf in a used bookstore. This book, too, is wonderful.Each chapter of the books in this series contains a separate incident, an example from Herriot’s everyday life. Although I do not normally care for books of short stories, in the case of this series, the stories are at least in chronological order and they are so touching they’ll make you wish you could hug Herriot.The stories in EVERY LIVING THING took place during the 1950s. Happily, by this time, antibiotics and other new drugs were now being produced. So veterinary medicine was more advanced by this time than it was in the earlier books in his series, and Herriot continued to learn. Also, his assistants, new veterinarians just out of college, knew more than he did when he graduated from college, also helpful to his practice.Although EVERY LIVING THING is the last book in the series, Herriot, thankfully, does not end it with the end of his career. That would have been too sad.
    • 4/5
      I got a hard bound copy of this for $1 at the Agoura Library book sale today. The sale is every Saturday from 10-4 in the basement. Lots of books and great deals! Most paperbacks are .50, and you can even request books that they'll set aside for you from incoming donations.
    • 4/5
      Well, I've been thinking about Herriot's books for decades, ever since I first read them. Finally had an opportunity to fit one into a group challenge. I'm not sure I ever did read this one before or not, but in any case I did enjoy it just as much as I hoped that I would. Such quick, sweet stories, with a fair bit of educational value, too. Ok, so maybe much of what I learned could only be used to win more games of Trivial Pursuit (t), but it's still interesting stuff.
    • 5/5
      Not quite up to the same level as Herriot's first four books — which still places it miles above many other books!
    • 4/5
      This re-publication of Herriot's stories has brought them alive to a new generation and I, for one, are sad to have finished the last of the five books with their attractive covers.A settled married man, and a bit older, James muses on his veternary exploits in another heartwarming and funny narrative. In this book James and family finally leave the draughtly but much loved Skeldale House for their own cosy home. Wonderful new faces are introduced which include a couple of interesting assistants.I love the ending, the story of what he regards as one of his greatest triumphs.
    • 4/5
      Another fine James Herriot book. This one has Collum and the badger involved. I just really enjoy these books. I am thinking about giving them to my niece. I think she'd enjoy them as well.
    • 3/5
      Really enjoyed this one, it's back to telling the stories the way they were told before the war. Shame it's the last one.Would have liked to hear about Tristan and some more from Siegfried.Some of the stories were quite sad, especially the story of Olly and Ginny. :-(
    • 4/5
      I love Herriot's vet stories! This book talks about the years when his children are young, and his first two apprentices. I particularly loved reading about Calum- his assistant who had a hoard of pets and children (and wore a badger around). I also enjoyed reading about Herriot's relationship with his own two cats.
    • 4/5
      I bought this book with fond childhood memories of Herriot's picture books, hoping I'd find something similar -- and I most certainly did. This book is more a series of vignettes with recurring characters than a set of chapters that tells a single story, and nearly every one is as funny, charming, or touching as one would expect from James Herriot. It's not very intellectually deep, but it's a wonderful light read.