Author: Stephen Dando-Collins
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History, Science, Non Fiction
Culture: Australia
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The story of how Adrien Loir, nephew to Louis Pasteur, travelled to Australia to show how disease might be used to reduce the rabbit plague afflicting Australia in 1888.
Loir met with interference, chicanery, espionage and worse, but had a partial victory of sorts.
The aim was to win a 25,000 pound prize for a method of biological control, a prize that would have provided the money needed to establish the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
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