WRESTLING WITH RHINOS - THE ADVENTURES OF A GLASGOW VET IN KENYA (DR JERRY HAIGH)

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IN 1965 JERRY HAIGH GRADUATED FROM VETERINARY COLLEGE IN GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, AND WITHIN FOUR DAYS - ARMED WITH ENTHUSIASM BUT LITTLE EXPERIENCE - RETURNED TO HIS BIRTH COUNTRY, KENYA.  HE BEGAN HIS CAREER AS A RAW INTERN AT THE VETERINARY FACULTY IN KABETE, AND PRACTISED ON A REMARKABLE ARRAY OF SPECIES INCLUDING HORSES, DOGS, CATTLE, AND CATS TO LIONS, CHEETAHS, GIRAFFES, ELEPHANTS, AND RHINOS.  AMONG HIS CLIENTS WAS JOMO KENYATTA, PRESIDENT OF KENYA.

ALONG THE WAY HE MET AND MARRIED A DUTCH DOCTOR WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP AND EDUCATED IN INDIA.  SEVERAL OF THE THE STORIES IN THIS BOOK DESCRIBE HOW THEY COMBINED THEIR MEDICAL SKILLS TO TREAT BOTH HUMAN AND ANIMAL PATIENTS, INCLUDING EACH OTHER.  THROUGH HIS USE OF DIARIES, STORED LETTERS, CASE RECORDS, VIVID MEMORIES, AND MEMOIRS BY HIS SOLDIER-FATHER, 'WRESTLING WITH RHINOS' RECREATES POST-INDEPENDENCE KENYA.