Republished as part of }The Canons{, Canongate's series of classic works, this is Booker Prize winning author John Berger's account of his time shadowing English country GP John Sassall, in the Forest of Dean in 1966. With photos by Jean Mohr and an introduction by writer and GP Gavin Francis Berger's exploration of what it means to heal, now inducted into the Canons series over fifty years after its first publication