Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Sacks, Oliver
by The Island of the Colorblind
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0679451145
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451143
- Seller
-
San Francisco, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York. 1997. January 1997. Knopf. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0679451145. 301 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. keywords: Science Island Colorblindness. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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. inventory #7464 ISBN: 0679451145.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7464
- Title
- Sacks, Oliver
- Author
- The Island of the Colorblind
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679451145
- ISBN 13
- 9780679451143
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1997
Terms of Sale
Zeno's
All items subject to prior sale. Payment in U.S. dollars must accompany order. Payment methods accepted- Paypal or check. Any item may be returned for whatever reason within 10 days of receipt. California residents add 9.5 % sales tax. California dealers please include resale card and number in lieu of tax.
About the Seller
Zeno's
Biblio member since 2004
San Francisco, California
About Zeno's
Zenosbooks.com is a secondhand and out-of-print Internet bookstore. While our stock is general, we specialize in Literature, Mysteries, Latin American Literature, African-American interest, and Translated Literature.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...