Peste Choléra (Audible Audio Edition) Patrick Deville Audiolib Books
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Le 30 mai 1940, Alexandre Yersin quitte Paris à bord du dernier avion pour Saigon. Il a 77 ans, ce sera son ultime voyage. Avec ce roman, Patrick Deville retrace le destin de ce scientifique atypique, aventurier et voyageur. Le jeune Yersin s'ennuie à l'Institut Pasteur. Très vite, il part en Asie, s'embarque comme médecin sur un navire, puis devient explorateur. Découvreur en 1894 du bacille de la peste, il s'installe en Indochine, multiplie les observations scientifiques. Il aura l'intuition des usages possibles de l'hévéa et de la coca...
Loin de l'hagiographie, le roman d'un écrivain et voyageur digne des plus grands, de Cendrars à Kessel, Soupault ou Simenon.
En interprétant lui-même l'épopée scientifique qui mène son héros au cœur de l'Asie, Patrick Deville donne à la conquête du savoir tout son poids d'humanité.
Peste Choléra (Audible Audio Edition) Patrick Deville Audiolib Books
Alexandre Yersin.He was born a Swiss national in 1863. His father died when he was young. His mother raised him, and the letters that he conscientiously wrote her throughout her life provided a valuable source for reconstructing his fascinating life. He was fluent in German and French. His initial medical training was Germany, in the town of Marburg. But it was ultimately France that would attract him, decisively, and he joined the "band of Pasteur." These were a group of gifted "disciples" who studied under Louis Pasteur, who established the field of microbiology, and developed immunizations against various diseases, notably rabies.
It was "La Belle Epoque." Much scientific progress was being made on many fronts, with notable improvements on the human condition. Yersin made his "mark" early, contributing to the understanding of diphtheria. Scientifically, he is most remembered as "Yersinia pestis." During an outbreak of the plague - "the Black Death" of the Middle Ages - in Hong Kong, he was the first to identify the bacterium that causes the plague, which led to the immunizations against it.
He was a polymath, and had the wanderlust. His "hero" was Livingstone, a fellow physician best known for his explorations in Africa. Before it was even known officially as "Indochine," Yersin hired on as a ship's physician, and went to what we still call the Far East. For a couple of years, he was a regular on the "Saigon-Manila" run. He would eventually stake out his claim to a bit of earth (which he kept constantly expanding!) in Nha Trang, in modern day Vietnam. Like numerous others, the mountains of the Annamite Cordillera "called to him." The achievement that I envy the most is that one day he left his home of the "wooden shack" in Nha Trang, and walked all the way across the Cordillera to the Mekong, and beyond, to Phnom Penh, in present-day Cambodia. In the process, he passed an area he realized would make an excellent "hill-station," where Da Lat would ultimately be founded, through his vision (and political contacts).
Patrick Deville tells the story of Yersin so well. He won the "Prix Femina" in 2012 for his efforts. He smoothly moves back and forth across time, with a key event being when he left France for the last time, in May, 1940. Deville also had to master a great deal of scientific detail (but does not convey enough to make the reader's eyes glaze over). He repeats some common themes (like how Yersin hated the "filth" of the political world, and usually stood aloof), with the appropriate frequency. Deville weaves into his story the ironies a long life can provide. Consider: It was Hitler and Goering's love of art that spared the Bourget airfield from bombing (since this is where Hitler would land for his "lighting tour" of Paris, in June, 1940). And Yersin would be on the last French plane that left that airfield in May, 1940... making the long journey back to his beloved "empire within an empire," Nha Trang, and his extended agricultural estate, to die, at the age of 80, while it was under Japanese occupation, in 1943.
I've read my share of books on Vietnam, and some have certainly been a "trodden path." Few books have provided so much sheer NEW information to me. In addition to the above, Deville relates Yersin's relationship with a host of individuals, like Paul Doumer, who, for Americans, was most famous for lending his name to a bridge in Hanoi we were trying to bomb during "our" war there. Doumer was "the orphan of Aurillac" who helped found Da Lat, and would eventually be gunned down by an assassin in France, in the 1930's. Yersin also knew Louis Ferdinand Celine, another physician who was in the "band of Pasteur." Yersin would become rich, and was known as the king of rubber and quinine, for the production from the trees of his "little empire," that he thrust into the hills above Nha Trang.
Deville's excellent book resonated on so many points. For four months the aforementioned Annamite Cordillera called to me, and said "come," walk through me, as Tim O'Brien captured in Going After Cacciato [Paperback] [1999] (Author) Tim O'Brien. Around 200 km from Nha Trang I was once a small cog in the process that Yersin initiated, and over the course of a year gave 200-300 immunizations for the plague and cholera, still remembering the dosages (.2cc and .5cc). And during a war there is that grave fear of communications lost - that helicopter that went down, et al.; in Yersin's day it was the loss of ships to German submarines, and he kept a log of them, with the first being "La Ville de la Ciotat." And there was Yersin, at the very end, studying Latin and Greek.
Deville's book proves to be an excellent recommendation that should be shared with friends who still seek to know what is around the next curve in the road, at any age. 5-stars, plus.
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Peste Choléra (Audible Audio Edition) Patrick Deville Audiolib Books Reviews
The man is so interesting and he had such an extraordinary life that I kept on reading and I did not mind the not so fluid and not so pleasant way the book is written - at least, not much. Following this man from the Paris of Pasteur to the Far East and particularly Vietnam gives an insight in a lost world. Badly written, but fascinating.
A fascinating account of the 19th-century, Pasteur-influenced and European colonialism era and an interesting, though fictionalized biography of Alexandre Yersin who both discovered the bacterium that causes the plague and studied manifestations of cholera bacteria. (No bibliographical sources farre given or the book) Yersin had an interesting mind and, an admirer of Stanley Livinigston, was always exploring and learning new things. He lived in and explored Vietnam for many years and the book includes a lot of first-hand details of that country in the 19th century - a country which also appreciated Yersin's work there and recognized him by naming streets, schools, etc., after him).
Mr. Deville's biography contains a lot of the language and sayings of Yersin's era so the his vocabulary makes readiing the book challenging but provides a genuine flavor of that time. A fascinating and very different read. For more detailed reviews, see others posted on the Internet.
Alexandre Yersin.
He was born a Swiss national in 1863. His father died when he was young. His mother raised him, and the letters that he conscientiously wrote her throughout her life provided a valuable source for reconstructing his fascinating life. He was fluent in German and French. His initial medical training was Germany, in the town of Marburg. But it was ultimately France that would attract him, decisively, and he joined the "band of Pasteur." These were a group of gifted "disciples" who studied under Louis Pasteur, who established the field of microbiology, and developed immunizations against various diseases, notably rabies.
It was "La Belle Epoque." Much scientific progress was being made on many fronts, with notable improvements on the human condition. Yersin made his "mark" early, contributing to the understanding of diphtheria. Scientifically, he is most remembered as "Yersinia pestis." During an outbreak of the plague - "the Black Death" of the Middle Ages - in Hong Kong, he was the first to identify the bacterium that causes the plague, which led to the immunizations against it.
He was a polymath, and had the wanderlust. His "hero" was Livingstone, a fellow physician best known for his explorations in Africa. Before it was even known officially as "Indochine," Yersin hired on as a ship's physician, and went to what we still call the Far East. For a couple of years, he was a regular on the "Saigon-Manila" run. He would eventually stake out his claim to a bit of earth (which he kept constantly expanding!) in Nha Trang, in modern day Vietnam. Like numerous others, the mountains of the Annamite Cordillera "called to him." The achievement that I envy the most is that one day he left his home of the "wooden shack" in Nha Trang, and walked all the way across the Cordillera to the Mekong, and beyond, to Phnom Penh, in present-day Cambodia. In the process, he passed an area he realized would make an excellent "hill-station," where Da Lat would ultimately be founded, through his vision (and political contacts).
Patrick Deville tells the story of Yersin so well. He won the "Prix Femina" in 2012 for his efforts. He smoothly moves back and forth across time, with a key event being when he left France for the last time, in May, 1940. Deville also had to master a great deal of scientific detail (but does not convey enough to make the reader's eyes glaze over). He repeats some common themes (like how Yersin hated the "filth" of the political world, and usually stood aloof), with the appropriate frequency. Deville weaves into his story the ironies a long life can provide. Consider It was Hitler and Goering's love of art that spared the Bourget airfield from bombing (since this is where Hitler would land for his "lighting tour" of Paris, in June, 1940). And Yersin would be on the last French plane that left that airfield in May, 1940... making the long journey back to his beloved "empire within an empire," Nha Trang, and his extended agricultural estate, to die, at the age of 80, while it was under Japanese occupation, in 1943.
I've read my share of books on Vietnam, and some have certainly been a "trodden path." Few books have provided so much sheer NEW information to me. In addition to the above, Deville relates Yersin's relationship with a host of individuals, like Paul Doumer, who, for Americans, was most famous for lending his name to a bridge in Hanoi we were trying to bomb during "our" war there. Doumer was "the orphan of Aurillac" who helped found Da Lat, and would eventually be gunned down by an assassin in France, in the 1930's. Yersin also knew Louis Ferdinand Celine, another physician who was in the "band of Pasteur." Yersin would become rich, and was known as the king of rubber and quinine, for the production from the trees of his "little empire," that he thrust into the hills above Nha Trang.
Deville's excellent book resonated on so many points. For four months the aforementioned Annamite Cordillera called to me, and said "come," walk through me, as Tim O'Brien captured in Going After Cacciato [Paperback] [1999] (Author) Tim O'Brien. Around 200 km from Nha Trang I was once a small cog in the process that Yersin initiated, and over the course of a year gave 200-300 immunizations for the plague and cholera, still remembering the dosages (.2cc and .5cc). And during a war there is that grave fear of communications lost - that helicopter that went down, et al.; in Yersin's day it was the loss of ships to German submarines, and he kept a log of them, with the first being "La Ville de la Ciotat." And there was Yersin, at the very end, studying Latin and Greek.
Deville's book proves to be an excellent recommendation that should be shared with friends who still seek to know what is around the next curve in the road, at any age. 5-stars, plus.
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