Living for Adventure: The Expeditions of Mr. Nam Yersin by Nguyen Vinh Nguyen (Nha Nam and Writers Association Publishing House)
Notable are the two novels Yersin by Patrick Deville and Doc-to Nam: The Miraculous Story of a Plague Fighter by Élisabeth du Closel.
In 2023, Tre Publishing House published Alexandre Yersin's travel diary, Journeys through the Highlands of Indochina. And now, Living for Adventure: The Expeditions of Mr. Nam Yersin by Nguyen Vinh Nguyen (Nha Nam and Hoi Nha Van Publishing House).
The story begins in the space of Xom Con, a peaceful fishing village on the coast of Nha Trang. Yersin lived the last days of his life in the love and respect of the Annamese people. A friendship was formed between Yersin and the children who were at the age of passionately exploring the vast horizon out there.
From Yersin, the children heard about his past adventures - dangerous but also joyful journeys to set foot on unexplored lands.
Those were the days of youth trekking through forests, climbing passes, and crossing streams.
The Annamese people are used to seeing Mr. Nam Yersin as a serious, dignified adult, a devoted doctor in a distant land far from his hometown.
The story opens up the life of a fatherless boy who lives on his mother's love, pursues education, longs to find new horizons, and devotes himself to science .
The book consists of many fragments, like pieces of memories connected together, strung together into a film about Yersin's life, in a moderate framework, enough to arouse curiosity.
Interspersed with fiction are Yersin's own memoirs, bringing readers closer to his life. Shifting back and forth between points of view, from the author's omnipotent view to the character's perspective.
Story by Nguyen Vinh Nguyen, illustrations by Linh Rab, Live to Adventure wants to expand its readership, targeting children.
The children will carry within them the dream of the rivers and lakes, but not only to satisfy themselves but also to learn from the doctor who lived more than a hundred years ago a spirit of serving humanity.
Above all, Living for Adventure, as the title of the book, expressed Yersin's youthful spirit and the spirit of a bygone era, an era of explorers, transcontinental journeys, along legendary rivers, venturing out into the great ocean or deep into a dark forest where no one from Western civilization had ever set foot.
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