Book description
'Anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written
book highly engaging' Sunday Telegraph Always fascinated by islands,
Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of Pingelap, where one
in twelve inhabitants is born totally colourblind; and to Guam, where he
investigates a puzzling, paralyzing neurodegenerative disorder that has
affected islanders there for over a century. 'Sacks's most sympathetic
study, offering profound insights into both disease and milieu'
Independent 'A moving, personal odyssey, a testament of tenacity,
courage and will' Literary Review
Oliver Sacks is a physician and the author of ten previous books,
including most recently, Musicophilia. He lives in New York
City, where he is Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Columbia
University. He is the first, and only, Columbia University Artist, and
is also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. In 2008, he was
appointed Commander of the British Empire.
