The life of this illustrious unknown who nevertheless labored all his life to destroy the great pandemics of past centuries is written as an epic and briskly. Indeed, Alexandre Yersin, a disciple gifted "to the Gaza Shepherd", lived a thousand lives and was certainly a genius microbiologist, but also an explorer, an engineer, a founder of cities, a settler king of rubber and cinchona and j 'on. He coasted Pierre Loti, the Michelin brothers helped to develop their tires, drove the first car Serpollet, piloted a plane after the exploit of Blériot, in short, his life is an adventure novel. And what attracted in this biography, is the enthusiasm of Patrick Deville to revive the time when the young Pasteur team, with unwavering faith in science and progress, led a constant struggle against prejudice and plagues which decimated humanity for millennia. Deville adopts brisk pace and alerting adventure story tells of this, cleaning the suspense by pricking always the curiosity of the reader's imagination as Yersin is limitless when it comes to finding new challenges to spice up his life , kind of big hyperactive child who will always where you least expect it. This is a fun way to approach a biography that could be off-putting and Deville inventing new writing codes, putting himself on stage, man of the future putting in the footsteps of this illustrious character he admires and it makes so alive.
