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Краткое содержание: Разводчики микробов
- Чтение: 8 мин.
- 10 parts
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Two Englishmen follow a loyal guide into the Australian bush and find a hidden valley that grows disease.
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Разводчики микробов — кратко о книге
Краткое содержание: 8 min на чтение
- Время чтения
- Около 3 h 55 min3 h 5 min fast, 4 h 40 min slow
- Длительность
- Слов: 55 700
- Уровень в библиотеке
- Средний longer sentences, everyday words
- Первая публикация
- 1892by Роберт Поттер
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Разводчики микробов in short
The Germ Growers follows two Oxford friends from a Welsh childhood legend to the heart of Australia. A cruel young man disappears under a strange shadow, a plague is stopped, and years later Bob and Jack join a telegraph survey, follow a loyal guide, and are left alone when a tribe runs from a hill. The hill hides a valley of flying cars, an Italian chemist who is more than he seems, and beds in which germs are made deadly.
What Разводчики микробов is about
What would you think if a shadow fell across the grass from a cloud that was not there, on the very morning a man you knew walked away and was never seen again? Bob watches two sharp shadows slide over the Welsh ground and vanish.
Robert Potter, who died in 1908, tells this Victorian adventure as the joint memoir of two friends, Bob Easterley and Jack Wilbraham. They fear nobody will believe them, so they write it down.
Для кого. You will enjoy this if you like Victorian adventure, unmapped country, hidden science and friendships tested by danger. It suits listeners who enjoy a narrator thinking aloud about good and evil.
The story in 10 parts
Key idea 1 · free to read
A vanished man and two strange shadows
Bob grows up in Penruddock, a Welsh coastal parish full of old legends. In many of them a bold, cold-hearted person vanishes without a trace, and a cloud or an invisible carriage with a shadow is seen in the sky. Bob enjoys them because they mix doubt with wonder.
He thinks he sees such a person in James Redpath, a handsome young man whom girls shrink from. Redpath likes to frighten children and hurt cats and dogs.
Months later Bob dozes by the sea, wakes in broad daylight and finds two sharply shaped shadows on the grass, with not a cloud in the sky. They slide together and disappear. Redpath is never seen again in Wales or England. The village thinks he fell from the cliffs, but Bob knows he walked inland and dares not link his disappearance to the shadows.
A cruel man, a cloudless sky and a shadow with no owner begin a mystery that the whole story answers.
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A plague with no source meets two doctors
Soon after Redpath vanishes, a strange disease breaks out in a valley two miles away.
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A ship's argument sends the friends to Australia
Seven or eight years pass.
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A faithful guide named Gioro wins their trust
The party travels north from Adelaide through country that is first dry and bare and later greener.
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Bomero's tribe runs from a hill with three peaks
The three ride out, and Gioro swaps his clothes for a matting kilt.
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A hill in the plain hides a valley of cars
Left alone, Bob and Jack weigh their options.
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Signor Davelli offers knowledge as bait
Jack distrusts their host from the start.
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The seed beds show what the valley makes
Davelli takes Bob in a smaller car to the western end of the valley.
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Curiosity, conscience and friendship are in the balance
The central theme of the book is that knowledge and goodness can pull apart.
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A joint memoir turns shadows into evidence
Bob tells the book in the first person, though two names stand behind it.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Bob Easterley The narrator, an Oxford-trained dreamer who is drawn to mysteries and wants to understand the strange forces he meets.
- Jack Wilbraham Bob's friend, an athletic and clear-sighted man whose sense of right keeps both of them steady and who wants them to survive.
- Gioro A truthful, courteous Aboriginal guide who longs to join his people at their great feast and keeps faith with his white friends.
- Bomero The tall, shrewd king of Gioro's tribe, who rules by smooth talk and who fears a hill in the far west.
- Mr. Fetherston A practical surveyor leading the telegraph party, who scorns queer stories and warns the friends against going west.
- Niccolo Davelli The courteous master of the hidden valley, a chemist and engineer who wants to win Bob over to his cause.
- James Redpath A handsome, cruel young man from Penruddock whose disappearance begins the mystery and haunts the whole tale.
- Dr. Leopold A young physician who fights the red sickness and believes that diseases may be bred on purpose by unseen enemies.
How it ends (spoiler)
Bob resists Davelli's final assault by turning his will to God, and Davelli leaves in a rage. That night the two friends take a car stocked by their helper Leäfar and flee east. A pursuing car is driven off, but a projectile wrecks their balloon and destroys their food. They find the telegraph wire, Jack cuts it, and rescuers arrive. Years later both men marry and live as neighbors in Queensland.
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Вопросы о книге Разводчики микробов
What is The Germ Growers about?
Two young Englishmen, Bob Easterley and Jack Wilbraham, leave a telegraph survey in Australia to follow an Aboriginal guide. They find a hidden valley of flying cars, led by a man named Davelli, where germs are bred to harm people.
Who is Niccolo Davelli in The Germ Growers?
He is the courteous master of the hidden valley, who says he was once a chemist and engineer in Italy. He speaks perfect but foreign English and wants Easterley to join his work, using offers of knowledge and power.
Is The Germ Growers a true story?
It is a work of fiction, first published by Robert Potter in the Victorian era. It is presented as the joint memoir of two friends, and uses real places such as Adelaide, Port Darwin, Daly Waters and Gippsland as its setting.
What do the shadows mean in The Germ Growers?
They are shadows of invisible flying cars, seen first on a Welsh cliff and again in Australia. They signal a hidden power that moves overhead, and they connect Bob's boyhood to the valley he later finds.
What is the main message of The Germ Growers?
The story says that the will is the real battleground. Knowledge is tempting, but a person who trades conscience for power loses freedom, while loyalty and prayer can protect the will even in great danger.
Как сослаться на это издание
Potter, Robert. The Germ Growers. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-germ-growers.
Potter, R. (2026). The germ growers. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-germ-growers (Original work published 1892)
Potter, Robert. The Germ Growers. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-germ-growers.
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