Aiming To Save: A Vet's Life in Conservation
Aiming To Save: A Vet's Life in Conservation
Pursuing a dream instilled by early David Attenborough television adventures, a young man from the industrial northwest of England is advised at school to become a veterinary surgeon as a first step towards a career working with wild animals in Africa.
His misgivings about the values and justification of domestic veterinary practice are contrasted with a passion for wilderness and wildlife conservation. Early experiences in the vivid Uganda of Idi Amin are juxtaposed with life in a grey Pennines veterinary practice.
Eventually arriving as a veterinary officer in newly independent Botswana he finds adventure with wild animals as a veterinarian and later as an ecologist, survey pilot, game capture operator and even a safari hunter, becoming a passionate conservationist... all while starting the first veterinary practice in the country.
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Publication year: 2022
Pages: 364
Language: English
Publisher: Rockhopper Books
ISBN: 9780639713823
Dimensions: 15.6 x 1.5 x 23.39 cm