On The Move: A Life
by Sacks, Oliver
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/None
- ISBN 10
- 1447264053
- ISBN 13
- 9781447264057
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Picador, 2015 9781447364057. First edition of trade paperback. First printing. Complete numberline. Fine. No annotations or inscriptions. 397 pages including index. 8vo. "Oliver Wolf Sacks, CBE, FRCP (9 July 1933 – 30 August 2015) was a British neurologist, naturalist and author who spent his professional life in the United States. He believed that the brain is the "most incredible thing in the universe" and therefore important to study..He became widely known for writing best-selling case histories about his patients' disorders, with some of his books adapted for stage and film. " (Wikipedia.) "When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old. a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: Sacks will go far. if he does not go too far. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed. On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s. first in California and then in New York...." .
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1873
- Title
- On The Move: A Life
- Author
- Sacks, Oliver
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1447264053
- ISBN 13
- 9781447264057
- Publisher
- : Picador,
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2015
- Keywords
- Oliver Sacks Autobiography Neurology Hampstead Childhood Motorcycles Jewishness San Francisco California Homosexuality Medicine QSE
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