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Novel path to the past
Author(s) -
Kane Ben
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
veterinary record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 99
eISSN - 2042-7670
pISSN - 0042-4900
DOI - 10.1136/vr.f2384
Subject(s) - passion , reading (process) , visual arts , history , foot (prosody) , outbreak , path (computing) , art history , art , medicine , psychology , literature , law , political science , computer science , social psychology , virology , programming language
Ben Kane loved reading and history at school, but had always wanted to be a vet. After qualifying, the urge to travel found him visiting places he had read about, which reignited his passion for history; however, it was while working as a temporary veterinary inspector during the foot‐and‐mouth outbreak in 2001 that he had the chance to stand on Hadrian's Wall and imagine how the Roman legionaries must have felt. That experience led him to turn his hand to writing historical military fiction