Monsieur Le Vet: My Life With Animals in Rural France - Couverture souple

Balteau, Sylvain

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1785780573 ISBN 13 : 9781785780578

Editeur : Icon Books, 2016

Synopsis

The hilarious, poignant and sometimes bizarre stories of an extraordinary vet in rural France

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 daily dramas of animals and their people.

Since 2007 he has kept a blog, revealing the hidden side of a vet s work and the rich variety of French rural life. As well as caring for the usual puppies and elderly cats, he tries to save a man s pet piglet and patches up hunting dogs after the annual wild boar hunt. Then he can be found carrying a newborn calf into a remote farmhouse to warm up by the fire, or pleading with a 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Icon Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1785780573
• ISBN 13: 9781785780578
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible