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By Oliver Sacks
"Island of the Colorblind" was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1997, it has 298 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Island of the Colorblind” Metadata:
- Title: Island of the Colorblind
- Author: Oliver Sacks
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 298
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish Date: 1997
- Library of Congress Classification: RE921.S23 1997RE921 .S23 1997
“Island of the Colorblind” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Diseases - Medical anthropology - Chamorro (Micronesian people) - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Cycads - Color blindness - Dementia - Parkinson's disease - Pingelap (Micronesian people) - Description and travel - Autobiography - Physicians - Achromatopsie - Travel - Nerveux, Système - Paralysie - Voyages - Neurobiologie - Dégénérescence - Kleurenblindheid - Personal Narratives - Color Vision Defects - Parkinson Disease - 44.73 geographical medicine - Neurobiology - Color-blindness - Bevölkerung - Postencephalitis - Palmfarngewächse - Endemie - Geomedizin - Farbenblindheit - Public health, pacific area - Oceania, description and travel - Symptomatic Parkinson's disease - Secondary Parkinson Disease - Maladie de Parkinson - Démence - Sclérose latérale amyotrophique - Chamorro (Peuple de Micronésie) - Maladies - Pingelap (Peuple de Micronésie) - Cycadales - Anthropologie médicale - Descriptions et voyages - Parkinson maladie - Troubles de la vision des couleurs - Vision des couleurs - Daltonisme - Maladie endémique - Couleur - Perception visuelle - Troubles - Parkinsonism
- Places: Guam - Micronesia - Caroline Islands - Micronesia (Federated States)
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL32790466M - OL1811902W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 429381128
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 96034252
- ISBN-13: 9780679451143
- All ISBNs: 9780679451143
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"Island of the Colorblind" Description:
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Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands - their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor. For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Darwin and Wallace. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally colorblind, Sacks finds himself setting up a clinic in a one-room island dispensary, where he listens to these achromatopic islanders describe their colorless world in rich terms of pattern and tone, luminance and shadow. And on Guam, where he goes to investigate the puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis endemic there for a century, he becomes, for a brief time, an island neurologist, making house calls with his colleague John Steele, amid crowing cockerels, cycad jungles, and the remains of a colonial culture. The islands reawaken Sacks' lifelong passion for botany - in particular, for the primitive cycad trees, whose existence dates back to the Paleozoic - and the cycads are the starting point for an intensely personal reflection on the meaning of islands, the dissemination of species, the genesis of disease, and the nature of deep geologic time. Out of an unexpected journey, Sacks has woven an unforgettable narrative which immerses us in the romance of island life, and shares his own compelling vision of the complexities of being human.
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