David Taylor, one of the world's few wildlife vets, has become even better known since his life and work formed the basis of the BBC television series One by One. This latest collection of adventures, the sixth, from his casebook includes accounts a day in an oasis and the exotic dinner requests of a sheikh the sad fate of dolphins in the polluted Adriatic an encounter with the White Lady, a very poisonous female indeed and an assortment of other moments with rare and wild animals and sometimes equally wild humans. 'Compassion, veterinary skill, excitement, spiced with humour' James Herriot