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The Island of the Colorblind
"Magical . . . Sacks's fans are in for a treat." --Kirkus"An explorer of that most wonderous of islands, the human brain," writes D.M. Thomas in...more
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This is an interesting subject but I found this book hard to get through. Every page contained one or more footnotes that required leafing to the back of the book to read comments which sometimes ran anywhere from a paragraph to a whole page in length. Almost half the book consisted of the footnotes in the back. Seems like it would have been better to weave those comments into the text....more
It’s a memoir of his travels through the South Pacific where he observes a variety of life forms and diseases unique to islands. It’s a compelling read at times, always interesting or enlightening, never boring. I didn’t expect to be too interested in the evolution of cycads, for instance, but Sacks is so fascinated about all of it, it’s difficult not to share in his...more
Another winner from sacks. first, an account of an achromatopic community on the pacific island of Pohnpei (which may also interesting to those who liked Jjasper Ffordes fictionalized account in "Shades of Grey.") He then goes on to Guam and Rok, in search of cycads, palmlike plants that have survived since the Carboniferous era, which may or may not be responsible for a rare neuroligical...more
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