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The Island of the Colorblind
by Oliver Sacks
- TRAVEL NARRATIVE
- 1997
- PAPER
- 320 PAGES
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At large on Pingelap in the remote Pacific, Oliver Sacks sets up a clinic to look into an unusually high incidence of colorblindness. Sacks is a brilliant, witty writer on neurological conditions (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) but these essays also show him to be keen on botany -- and a good travel writer. His chapter on cycads is terrific.
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