The Island of the Colour-blind

Author : Oliver Sacks

Paperback

Published : Saturday 1 October 2011

ISBN : 9780330526104

Price : €13.24

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Description

From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia.

'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' - Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees - and these become the starting point for a meditation on time and evolution, disease and adaptation, and islands both real and metaphorical in The Island of the Colour-Blind.

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