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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.     Subjects     Color blindness -- Caroline Islands.     Parkinson's disease -- Guam.     Dementia -- Guam.     Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Guam.     Chamorro (Micronesian people) -- Diseases.     Pingelap (Micronesian people) -- Diseases.     Cycads -- Guam.     Medical anthropology -- Micronesia.     Micronesia -- Description and travel.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015.       by title:      The island of the co...         MARC Display

The island of the colorblind [electronic resource] ; and, Cycad island / by Oliver Sacks. by Sacks, Oliver, 1933-2015. New York : Vintage Books, 1998. Subjects Color blindness -- Caroline Islands.   Parkinson's disease -- Guam.   Dementia -- Guam.   Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- Guam.   Chamorro (Micronesian people) -- Diseases.   Pingelap (Micronesian people) -- Diseases.   Cycads -- Guam.   Medical anthropology -- Micronesia.   Micronesia -- Description and travel. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=4070148C-9E8C-4538-B02E-1B85A6068D21 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4070148C-9E8C-4538-B02E-1B85A6068D21&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{4070148C-9E8C-4538-B02E-1B85A6068D21}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780345805898 (electronic bk.) 0345805895 (electronic bk.) 129905661X (electronic bk.) 9781299056619 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource : illustrations, maps Edition:  Vintage books ed. Requests:  0 Summary:  Oliver Sacks 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' lifelong passion for botany--in particular, for the primitive cycad trees, whose existence dates back to the Paleozoic--and the cycads are the starting point for an intensely personal reflection on the meaning of islands, the dissemination of species, the genesis of disease, and the nature of deep geologic time. Out of an unexpected journey, Sacks has woven an unforgettable narrative which immerses us in the romance of island life, and shares his own compelling vision of the complexities of being human.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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