Monsieur le Vet: My Life with Animals in Rural France

Balteau, Sylvain

ISBN 10: 1785780573 / ISBN 13: 9781785780578

Editore: Icon Books, 2016

Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority! Codice articolo S_464931510

Riassunto:

Sylvain Balteau works as a village vet in the Pyrenees. Equally at home with a sick hamster as with a pregnant Charolais cow, he is permanently on call, immersed in the dramas of his patients and their owners.

Since 2007 he has kept diary, revealing the hidden side of a vet’s life and the richness of his surroundings: a piglet that has become a disadvantaged person’s only reason for living; a cat that arrives on Christmas Eve to be destroyed and leaves the next day in full health; the mare dying peacefully under a tree; the farmer’s wife on the verge of a heart attack who insists that the vet see her sick cow first . . .

Through his work with their animals, Sylvain gains a privileged insight into the people who live with them. In this profound and unsentimental book, he discovers that, in order to love animals, you can’t help but love people as well.

Informazioni sugli autori:

Sylvain Balteau, 36, has lived in a French village in the Haute-Garonne, at the foot of the Pyrenees, all of his life . He trained as a vet in Toulouse and started keeping a blog of his life in 2007. This is his first book. He speaks English fluently.

Sylvain Balteau, 36, has lived in a French village in the Haute-Garonne, at the foot of the Pyrenees, all of his life . He trained as a vet in Toulouse and started keeping a blog of his life in 2007. This is his first book. He speaks English fluently.

Dati bibliografici

Titolo: Monsieur le Vet: My Life with Animals in ...
Casa editrice: Icon Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2016
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Very Good