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The Island of the Colour-blind

By Oliver Sacks

The Island of the Colour-blind Medicine

The Island of the Colour-blind

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'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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
384
Release Date:
2012-07-05
Publication Date:
2012-07-05
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0330526103
ISBN13:
9780330526104
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
314 g
Height:
130 cm
Width:
195 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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