Description
| Product ID: | 9780330526104 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Island of the Colour-blind |
| Authors: | Author: Oliver Sacks |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Anthropology, Anthropology, Popular science, Human biology, Travel writing, Popular science, Human biology, Travel writing, South Pacific |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the bestselling author of Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia. <p><b>'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' – <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br> 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 <i>The Island of the Colour-Blind</i>.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-07-05 |
