Something in a Cardboard Box

Tales from a Wild Life Hospital

Les Stocker (Autor)

Druckwerk

222 Seiten

1989
Chatto & Windus
978-0-7011-3329-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Tales of the rescue of wildlife ranging from badges, foxes and deer, hedgehogs, toads and mink to bats and grebes. Accounts of human heartlessness and dramatic rescue dashes are related by an animal lover who has a dream to build Europe's first wildlife teaching hospital.

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In their back garden in Aylesbury, Less Stocker and his wife Sue run a wildlife hospital where, day and night, pathetic furry and feathered bundles arrive in cardboard boxes. These pages tell the tales of the rescue of wildlife ranging from badges, foxes and deer, hedgehogs, toads and mink to bats and grebes. Accounts of human heartlessness and dramatic rescue dashes are related by the author who has a dream to build Europe's first wildlife teaching hospital. The author has also written "The Complete Hedgehog".

Inhalt

One Friday in May; I've started so I'll finish; a sign-on of the times; foxes and boxes; Tring is the "In" place; weathering a crisis; hook, line and similiar; Big Bertha, a car and a council; sometimes you should not let them go; deer,deer; moonlighting; to be continued...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.1989
• Zusatzinfo: 100 b&w photographs and line drawings, animal aid charts
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 210 x 210 mm
• Gewicht: 488 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin
• ISBN-10: 0-7011-3329-5 / 0701133295
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7011-3329-0 / 9780701133290
• Zustand: Neuware