Aiming to Save

A Vet's Life in Conservation

Aiming to Save
Larry Patterson
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Paperback
h234 x 156mm - 368pg
28 Apr 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781914471469
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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.
Larry Patterson is is a wildlife ecologist with a veterinary science degree from Glasgow University, and a master' s degree in Conservation from University College, London. Born in Bolton, he was inspired by David Attenborough to pursue a life in the African bush. Now a wildlife consultant, Larry established Botswana' s first veterinary clinic and then a pioneering wildlife capture and translocation company.

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