Primates - including man - are the ones to watch. In the jungle it
is men or related primates who can be dangerous. It shouldn't
happen to a vet, but in Richard Jones's case it invariably does -
whether he's in Belize or Banffshire: an orang-utan called Josh,
fractious bulls, bellowing heifers, lambless ewes, three Caesarean
calvings in one night, odd goings-on in the Glacks of Garrough, a
strange use for a hock bottle, a hint when Jack Russells are about
to bite and a safe method of extracting an egg from a nine-foot
African rock python! Yet the ones to watch in this beautifully
drawn novel are, the author suggests, the humans. Why can't some
people let sleeping dogs lie - especially when they're dead! And
why exactly does Richard's ferocious Classics teacher reappear in
his life and insist on working in the practice? Are his motives
benign, or is an excision required? Read on, for laughter and
indeed information, as this highly detailed and humorous picture of
rural life offers both in large measure. R Llewellyn Brown was born
in Tanzania in 1957 and spent much of his childhood in the tropics
of Africa, Asia and South America. Educated at Marlborough College,
Wiltshire and St John's College, Cambridge, he qualified as a
veterinary surgeon in 1981. In the same year he met his future wife
on a farm in Scotland. They have two children. After two tours
working for the Belize and Hong Kong governments the family
returned to Scotland. He and his wife practice in Aberdeenshire as
a vet and a lawyer respectively while the children attend the local
secondary school. At present he divides his time between his
family, running a practice, church commitments, writing humorous
articles, hockey andnumerous hobbies.
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