The Island of the Colorblind
1997 book by Oliver Sacks
978-0-676-97035-7The Island of the Colorblind is a 1997 book by neurologist Oliver Sacks about achromatopsia on the Micronesian atoll of Pingelap. It was published in the UK as The Island of the Colour-blind. The second half of the book is devoted to the mystery of Lytico-Bodig disease in Guam.
The subject was also presented in an episode of the BBC documentary series The Mind Traveller.[1][2][3]
External links
- The Island of the Colorblind
- C-SPAN book discussion on The Island of the Colorblind, February 9, 1997
- The Case of the Colorblind Painter
References
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Oliver Sacks
- Migraine (1970)
- Awakenings (1973)
- A Leg to Stand On (1984)
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales (1985)
- Seeing Voices: A Journey Into the World of the Deaf (1989)
- An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995)
- The Island of the Colorblind (1997)
- Uncle Tungsten (2001)
- Oaxaca Journal (2002)
- Musicophilia (2007)
- The Mind's Eye (2010)
- Hallucinations (2012)
- On the Move: A Life (2015)
- Gratitude (2015)
- Oliver Sacks: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (2016)
- The River of Consciousness (2017)
- Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales (2019)
- At First Sight
- Awakenings
- The Man Who: a theatrical research
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- The Music Never Stopped
- 84928 Oliversacks
- Insomniac City
- Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
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