Pasteur's Gambit: Louis Pasteur, the Australiasian Rabbit Plague and a Ten Million Dollar Prize by Stephen Dando-Collins
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781741667035
Author: Stephen Dando-Collins
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Vintage Books
Place: North Sydney NSW
Year: 2008
Format: Paperback
Pages: 337 pages
Period: 19th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some marks on front and back covers. Pages are sunned. Interior and binding are still very good.
The incredible, previously untold story of Australia's role in the creation of the world-famous Pasteur Institute.
In 1887, the desperate NSW Government of Sir Henry Parkes advertised an international competition for a biological cure for the rabbit plague ravaging the farms of Australia and New Zealand. The competition, with a prize equivalent to $10 million today, would attract 1500 entries.
In Paris, famous microbiologist Dr Louis Pasteur, struggling to raise the funds to open his prestigious Pasteur Institute, saw the Australasian rabbit competition as the answer to his financial prayers. For Pasteur was convinced he had the biological remedy to the rabbit plague.
To Australia came Pasteur's dashing 25-year-old nephew, Adrien Loir, sent to prove Pasteur's remedy and return home within six weeks with the prize money. But Pasteur had not reckoned on sabotage by his greatest scientific rival, or on the self-interest of the competition's Australian and New Zealand judges, or the private agendas of local politicians. Young Loir, determined not to fail his uncle, was in for the fight of his life.
Pasteur's Gambit, featuring a cast of characters ranging from great names in science to legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt and a fast-talking Sydney larrikin, is the previously untold true story of an amazing episode in both scientific and national history. (publishers blurb)
Pasteur's Gambit: Louis Pasteur, the Australiasian Rabbit Plague and a Ten Million Dollar Prize by Stephen Dando-Collins
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