The Animals Came In One By One: An Autobiography by Buster Lloyd-Jones

W. L. Lloyd-Jones is thought of by thousands of animal lovers in Britain and elsewhere as perhaps the most skillful veterinary surgeon ever to have practiced his art. He is known to them all as Buster. Illness incapacitated him a few years ago, and so he has now had time to tell the story of his life -- modestly, humorously, without affectation. It makes enthralling reading, whether Buster is feeding lion cubs from a baby bottle, trying to persuade Sir Winston Churchill not to stuff his poodle with chocolates, curing J. V. Rank's wolfhounds and Great Danes of streptococcal infection, wiring a tortoise's jaws after a collision with a lawn mower, or mending a porcupine's nose while trying to keep a safe distance from its quills. He has treated the pets of the great and the humble -- and the eccentric. (He remarks that the Englishman's reputation for being dotty about animals is fully justified, and tells enough anecdotes to prove it.). This 1986 Secker & Warburg Paperback is in good condition. Pages tanned, cover yellowed and faded a little.

ISBN: 9780436255014 SKU: 1576898 This image is of the actual book.

SKU: 1576898
Location: Animals