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- Publisher: Random House Inc
- ISBN: 0375700730
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100060509
- Release Date: December 1, 1997
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- #5 in Essays (See Top 100 Essays Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island" by Oliver Sacks to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island"Browse more products related to "Oliver Sacks"Review"THE ISLAND OF THE COLORBLIND is an odd book, part case study, part travelogue, part weave of digressions, but this oddness is a measure of the personality that unifies it....Sacks allows the reader to browse at will among the curio-filled cabinets of his mind. This openness is what makes him such a sympathetic observer of others, and also what can best persuade the apprehensive lay reader that science expresses the very highest imagination." "...Dr. Sacks' humane inquisitiveness lends a philosophical perspective to every threatening change. His scenes are stills from the moving picture of timeless evolution." "...The book that has started as a high-quality travelogue ends closer in spirit to Eliot's 'Four Quartets.'" "At times he is speculative, at times reverential, yet he never strikes a false note, never parades his learning, never pontificates, never postures. There is something elegiac in the writing as he mourns the passing of complex myth and tribal explanation while valuing the information and the control afforded by the rise of scientific knowledge and understanding." "This is a wonderful book, made better by Sacks' exceptionally gentle descriptions of patients." First lineIslands have always fascinated me; perhaps they fascinate everyone. Publisher's note"Magical . . . Sackss fans are in for a treat." --Kirkus"An explorer of that most wonderous 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 Sackss journeys to a tiny Pacific atoll and the island of Guam become explorations of the time, and the complexities of being human."Sackss total immersion in islands life makes this luminous, beautifully written report a wonderous voyage of discovery. As a travel writer, Sacks ranks with Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin. As an investigator of the mind's mysteries, he is in a class by himself."--Publishers Weekly From the bestselling author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "An Anthropologist on Mars" comes "a delightful inner and outer journey, destined to surprise and please the devoted Sacks reader" ("Washington Post")--a work rich in curiosity and compassion and intellectual adventure. 20 illustrations. 3 maps. AnnotationA case history of congenital disease in two Micronesian islands, by the medical historian and author of AWAKENINGS and THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT. On Pingelap, one of the Caroline Islands, the natives suffer from inherited colorblindness; while many of the inhabitants of Guam contract Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. If You Enjoy "The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island (Paperback)" by Oliver Sacks (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Essays Bestsellers
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