Jesse F. Bone 
Survival Type [PDF ebook] 

American science fiction author Jesse F. Bone had an illustrious career as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps, a veterinarian, and a professor and textbook author in the veterinary sciences. Along the way, he began penning SF stories and novels that achieved a significant amount of acclaim, including a Hugo Award nomination. "Survival Type, " a story that follows the exploits of intrepid interplanetary explorer Arthur Lanceford as he navigates the deadly terrain of the planet Niobe, was one of Bone’s first publications.