The Case of the Midwife Toad

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