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product_id: 88959713
title: "The Island of the Colorblind"
brand: "oliver sacks"
price: "€ 28.38"
currency: EUR
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category: "Books"
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# The Island of the Colorblind

**Brand:** oliver sacks
**Price:** € 28.38
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        			&quot;Magical . . . Sacks&apos;s fans are in for a treat.&quot; --Kirkus&quot;An explorer of that most wonderous of islands, the human brain,&quot;&#xA0;&#xA0;writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, &quot;Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands.&quot;&#xA0;&#xA0;Both kinds figure movingly in this book--part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery story--in which Sacks&apos;s journeys to a tiny Pacific atoll and the island of Guam become explorations of the time, and the complexities of being human.&quot;Sacks&apos;s total immersion in islands life makes this luminous, beautifully written report a wonderous voyage of discovery. As a travel writer, Sacks ranks with Paul Theroux and Bruce Chatwin. As an investigator of the mind&apos;s mysteries, he is in a class by himself.&quot;--Publishers Weekly
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
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        			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.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. And on Guam, where he goes to investigate the puzzling neurodegenerative paralysis endemic there for a century, he becomes, for a brief time, an island neurologist, making house calls with his colleague John Steele, amid crowing cockerels, cycad jungles, and the remains of a colonial culture.The islands reawaken Sacks&apos; lifelong passion for botany--in particular, for
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
                
        
        
            
            
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*Last updated: 2026-02-23*