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, paralysing neurodegenerative disorder that has affected islanders there for over a century.
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.
ISBN:
9780330526104
Binding:
Paperback
Pub. Date:
01/08/2012
Category:
Popular Science
Imprint:
Picador
Pages:
384 page/s
Stock:
To order
Price:
$24.99 AUD