a scientific explorer

The subject of this "novel" is very interesting and informative. The fate of Alexandre Yersin is exceptional. It could have been a great scholar deep in his lab ... It could have been an explorer in the jungles of Asia ... or a doctor of the poor ... It was all that and much more, and found the strength to live his life and his research without binding to person, deep in Indochina far from the global conflicts of the first half of the twentieth century.
The operation of drawing parallels between his life and that of other great men he crossed is excellent but should have been more developed. The average reader finds his simple "evocation" a little short and would like more explicit historical supplements.
The style of the text is very brief and very allusive. Small short sentences make zigzags in time and jump from one character to another, often introduced indirectly by circumlocutions. Some shortcuts are fun, others incomprehensible. This makes little fluid reading this book would have benefited from being written in a more posed.