... . Microbe Hunters recounts, in an alarmingly bubbly tone replete with exclamation marks, the exploits of the early microbiologists: Leeuwenhoek, Pasteur, Koch, Reed, and others. The author, a longtime bacteriologist at the University of Michigan, manages a view of these great small-game hunters that is both hero-worshipful of their achievements and unabashedly gleeful about their human foibles. Here, for instance, is his ... to the tinkle of the bell on the cash drawer, being polite to an eternal succession of Dutch housewives who shopped with a penny-pinching dreadful exhaustiveness -- ...

• Word Count: 397
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate