Name: The Island of the Colorblind
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Author: Oliver Sacks
ISBN: 9780375700736

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Physical Book

Author

Oliver Sacks

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1998

Language

English

Pages

336

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.1 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0375700730

ISBN13

9780375700736

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Synopsis "The Island of the Colorblind "

"An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain," writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, "Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands." Both kinds figure movingly in this book--part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery story--in which Sacks's journeys to a tiny Pacific atoll and the island of Guam become explorations of the meaning of islands, the genesis of disease, the wonders of botany, the nature of deep geological time, and the complexities of being human.

Oliver Sacks

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Oliver Wolf Sacks, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, cited as Oliver Sacks, was a British neurologist and writer of Jewish origin, fond of chemistry and a popularizer of science, especially regarding his specialty.

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