The Island of the Colour-Blind

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Typ okładki:miękka okładka

EAN: 9780330526104

Opis

'Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy . . . anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' – Sunday Times

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 adaptation, and islands both real and metaphorical in The Island of the Colour-Blind.

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Szczegóły

Liczba stron: 384

Wymiary: 195 x 130 x 27

Typ okładki:miękka okładka

Wydawca: Pan MacMillan

Autor:

Oliver Sacks

Seria: Picador

Tytuł:The Island of the Colour-Blind

Kategorie:

Książki obcojęzyczne / angielskie / Psychology

EAN: 9780330526104