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About the Book: The Island of the Colour-blind
Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the
exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging Sunday Times/p>
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
About the Book: The Island of the Colour-blind
Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the
exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging Sunday Times/p>
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