The Island of the Colour-blind and Cycad Island
(Sprache: Englisch)
Oliver Sacks travels once again in search of human diversity . . .
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Oliver Sacks travels once again in search of human diversity . . .
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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.'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' Anthony Storr, Sunday Times
'This is a wonderful book, made better by Sacks' exceptionally gentle descriptions of patients. He also captures the unimaginable sadness of the Pacific' Spectator
'Dr Sacks is an elegant and beguiling writer, and when he describes a condition such as achromatopsia (total colour-blindness), he is not content merely to describe it from the outside, but he tries to imagine what the world is like to a person with the condition' Sunday Telegraph
'There is no one at the present time who writes like Oliver Sacks . . . He is a superb clinician who can take a seemingly arid and obscure medical condition, and convert it into a moving, personal odyssey, a testament of tenacity, courage and will' Anthony Clare, Literary Review
Autoren-Porträt von Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks, geb. am 9. Juli 1933 in London, gest. am 30. August 2015 in New York City, war Neurologe und wurde in der Öffentlichkeit vor allem als Sachbuchautor bekannt. Seine Bücher wie 'Der Mann, der seine Frau mit einem Hut verwechselte' oder 'Der Tag, an dem mein Bein fortging' erreichten ein Millionenpublikum. Über seine bahnbrechende Forschung zur Schlafkrankheit, die er in dem Buch 'Zeit des Erwachens' schildert, wurde der gleichnamige Hollywoodfilm gedreht.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Oliver Sacks
- 1997, 384 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 2,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: GB
- ISBN-10: 033035082X
- ISBN-13: 9780330350822
Sprache:
Englisch
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