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"It manages to delight, and frequently to entrance, old and new readers and] continues to engage our hearts and minds today with an indescribably brand of affectionate sympathy."--F. Gonzalez-Crussi, from the Introduction

2023 Reprint of the 1927 edition. Here is the true story of the adventures of explorers in the fantastic world of the unseen. These explorers were like other men; they had curiosity; they groped, sometimes failed. They found truth, they fought death; a few were caught in ambush... Read Full Overview

Paul de Kruif, an American microbiologist and author, was most well-known for writing this classic bestseller, Microbe Hunters. His accounts of fourteen microbe hunting scientists are enlightening, engrossing, and paradoxically humorous and entertaining at the same time. All... Read Full Overview

La vida personal, los aciertos y fracasos que enfrentaron en el mundo microsc?pico cient?ficos inmortalizados por sus haza?as se incluyen en este libro. Gracias a la inteligencia y a la capacidad de observaci?n de unos cuantos hombres de ciencia, con defectos y virtudes como... Read Full Overview

In this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich. This seventieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by F. Gonzalez-Crussi. Index.

Los microorganismos son bichos que conviven con la humanidad y que, por una parte, pueden matar en forma misteriosa y en silencio a millones de personas y por otra, son ben ficos para la naturaleza y el ser humano. Esta obra habla de varios investigadores o cazadores de microbios... Read Full Overview