Ebook {Epub PDF} The Island of the Colorblind by Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks writes beautiful prose and inspires curiosity about the wonders of the human brain through descriptions of neurology problems. This is true in all his writing and here, too, as he describes rare disorders that are concentrated in Pacific Island populations: achromatic colorblindness in Pingelap, and lytico-bodig (a degenerative paralysis similar to parkinsonism or ALS) in Guam/5.  · "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 Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.  · For him, islands conjure up equally the romance of Melville and Stevenson, the adventure of Magellan and Cook, and the scientific wonder of Author: Oliver Sacks.

BOOKS by OLIVER SACKS. Click to Read Review 1. The Island of the Colorblind 2. Uncle Tungsten — Memories of a Chemical Boyhood 3. Musicophilia — Tales of Music and the Brain 4. An Anthropologist on Mars — Seven Paradoxical Tales 5. On the Move — A Life 6. A Leg To Stand On — A Neurography 7. Gratitude 8. The Mind's Eye. Oliver Sacks describes, in beautiful depth, his childhood love of islands and his fascination with, in particular, the ancient cycad trees. He embarks on a expedition to the islands of the Pacific in order to research two extraordinary phenomena - a population which is largely achromatopic (colour-blind) and an island on which the causes of a mysterious paralysis have eluded scientists for. 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.

"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. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally color-blind, 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. 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 bltadwin.ru to the tiny Pacific atoll of.