Trials of the Monkey An Accidental Memoir
by Chapman, Matthew
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0312300786
- ISBN 13
- 9780312300784
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Picador. Very Good. 2002. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. 0312300786 . Card covers show light shelf wear, some corner of card covers.; A bright, solid book.; 5.5 X 0.86 X 8.5 inches; 367 pages; ""When Darwin called his second book The Descent of Man instead of The Ascent of Man he was thinking of his progeny." So declares Darwin's great-great grandson Matthew Chapman as he leaves behind his stressful career as a Hollywood screenwriter and travels to Dayton, Tennessee where in 1925 creationist opposition to the teaching of evolution in schools was played out in a famous legal drama, the Scopes Monkey Trial. The purpose of this journey is to see if opinions have changed in the seventy- five intervening years. A defiant atheist, Chapman is confronted not only by the fundamentalist beliefs that continue to banish the theory of evolution but by his own spiritual malaise as the outward journey becomes an inward quest, a tragicomic "accidental memoir"." .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21111
- Title
- Trials of the Monkey An Accidental Memoir
- Author
- Chapman, Matthew
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0312300786
- ISBN 13
- 9780312300784
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- 0312300786, Darwin, Evolution, atheism, scopes
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Law; SCIENCE; RELIGION;
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