A Vet’s Ventures in the Interior (English Edition)

After qualifying as a veterinary surgeon from Glasgow University, Ian McLauchlan took off to Africa and thereafter spent most of his working life in countries in central and southern Africa. He started as a colonial civil servant in Nyasaland in the 1950s. He followed this by running his own private veterinary practice in the Rhodesia of the 1960s. Back to Nyasaland (by then re-named Malawi) as a government veterinarian in the 1970s. And finally in Botswana as the veterinarian in charge of meat hygiene in one of the biggest export abbattoirs in Africa until he retired in 1995. This is the story of his working life and that of his family in an Africa which he loves.