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Footprints on the toilet seat : memoirs of a falcon doctor /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Remple, David, 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:Glossary of English terms pertaining to falcons and falconry; glossary of Arabic words and phrases with English translations.
Published: [S.l.] : J. David Remple, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Falcons > Treatment.
Veterinarians > United Arab Emirates > Dubayy (Emirate) > Biography.
Veterinary medicine > United Arab Emirates > Dubayy (Emirate) > Anecdotes.
Avian medicine > United Arab Emirates > Dubayy (Emirate)
Birds.
Raptors.
Veterinary Medicine.
Falconiformes.
Veterinarians.
Anecdotes.
Autobiography.
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Goats, camels and skyscrapers
  • Meeting his highness
  • Forging trust: the cases begin
  • Differences
  • January
  • One missing, one not moving
  • Insights
  • Sorting out relationships
  • March
  • Erosion
  • Pakistan: ras bellas
  • Pakistan: Bahawalpur
  • Sculpting events of 1986-1987
  • Celebrity status in a war zone
  • Culture clashes: the road to futility
  • Leisure time
  • Expansion and consequences
  • War again
  • The Hospital Dumb Friends League
  • Treachery
  • The unexpected intern and other arrivals
  • The road to Abu
  • Breakthroughs and setbacks
  • Unsettling events
  • The gift
  • Riding the crest of the biggest wave
  • The 'Ides of March'