The Case of the Midwife Toad
by Koestler, Arthur
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0330246429
- ISBN 13
- 9780330246422
- Seller
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melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Picador, London, 1978. reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 192 pages, acknowledgements, 5 appendices, references, bibliography, index; the book is illustrated with 8 pages of black-and-white photographs. In 1926 an Austrian experimental biologist, Paul Kammerer, committed suicide. The suicide itself came as a climax to a great evolutionary controversy. Arthur Koestler decided to investigate the mystery. He expected, when he started on his researches, to tell the tragedy of a man who betrayed his calling, for the suicide was accepted as a confession of guilt and Kammerer's work was discredited from that day to this. Instead, as Koestler read the contemporary papers, and corresponded with Kammerer's daughter and all surviving scientists who had attended the lecturer in Cambridge, he found himself writing a vindication of a man who was in all probability himself betrayed. Light browning to the endpapers and internal pages are very lightly browned. Otherwise a very good secondhand paperback book. Second Impression. Size: Mid Sized Paperback ( 7¾" - 9¾" tall ). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Science & Technology; Biology; ISBN: 0330246429. ISBN/EAN: 9780330246422. Inventory No: 0255536. . 9780330246422
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- Bookseller
- Syber's Books ABN 40533682787 (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0255536
- Title
- The Case of the Midwife Toad
- Author
- Koestler, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0330246429
- ISBN 13
- 9780330246422
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- BZDB2 Evolution, Darwinism, Scientific Community, Discredit, Paul Kammerer Science & Technology; Biology; Unbranded ISBN: 0330246429 EAN: 9780330246422 Koestler, Arthur The Case of the Midwife Toad
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- Biology;
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