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Microbe Hunters
- The Classic Book on the Major Discoveries of the Microscopic World
- Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world.
Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif reveals the now seemingly simple but really fundamental discoveries of science - for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, for the first time ever, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it.
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- Wild Bunny
- 25-01-22
Loved it
If you like microbes this will be a good read for you. Thoroughly enjoyed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-01-21
Long wanted to read this. Not disappointed.
My dad had this book and I wanted to read it since I was a child. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Clear and detailed but not too complicated. Language somewhat dated.
I've come away more knowledgeable.
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- Edluan
- 16-10-22
Amazing but terrible
An amazing history of the science told in an engaging but terribly revisit way. Not at all sure what score to give it.
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