JAMES HERRIOT
James Herriot, a vet turned best-selling author, penned twenty
books during his lifetime, selling over sixty million copies.
His gentle, humorous, heartwarming narratives of the life of a
veterinarian in England's Yorkshire Dales during the 1940s and
1950s touched a vein in readers of the late twentieth century.
As Mitzi Brunsdale noted in her James Herriot, "an audience
buffeted by brushfire wars, continent-spanning plagues, voice
mail, E-mail, lost mail, MTV, and the Information Superhighway
can still find solace in the disarming tales a gentle
veterinarian from a Yorkshire town . .
. and a . . . world far removed from the horrors of the
nightly news, yet as intimate as the decency and compassion of
the human heart." Brunsdale further noted that Herriot's work
"charms his readers with a healthy nostalgia for what used to
be best in our world as well as an unquenchable hope for what
we want to think--in spite of ourselves--remains
James Herriot, a vet turned best-selling author, penned twenty
books during his lifetime, selling over sixty million copies.
His gentle, humorous, heartwarming narratives of the life of a
veterinarian in England's Yorkshire Dales during the 1940s and
1950s touched a vein in readers of the late twentieth century.
As Mitzi Brunsdale noted in her James Herriot, "an audience
buffeted by brushfire wars, continent-spanning plagues, voice
mail, E-mail, lost mail, MTV, and the Information Superhighway
can still find solace in the disarming tales a gentle
veterinarian from a Yorkshire town . .
. and a . . . world far removed from the horrors of the
nightly news, yet as intimate as the decency and compassion of
the human heart." Brunsdale further noted that Herriot's work
"charms his readers with a healthy nostalgia for what used to
be best in our world as well as an unquenchable hope for what
we want to think--in spite of ourselves--remains