The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island: And, Cycad Island - Rilegato

Sacks, Oliver W.

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ISBN 10: 0679451145 ISBN 13: 9780679451143

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

Riassunto

The author of An Anthropologist on Mars describes his journey to the islands of the Pacific, recounting a stay on an island inhabited by an isolated colorblind community and his investigation into a baffling neurodegenerative paralysis on Guam. 150,000 first printing. Lit Guild Alt. Tour.

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Recensione:

"Magical . . . Sacks's 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 Sacks's journeys to a tiny Pacific atoll and the island of Guam become explorations of the time, and the complexities of being human.

"Sacks's 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 Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Oliver Sacks was born in London in 1933 and educated in London, Oxford, and California. He is a professor of neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the author of seven books, including Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and An Anthropologist on Mars. He lives on City Island in New York, where he swims and raises cycads and ferns.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679451145
• ISBN 13: 9780679451143
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 298