Island of the Colour-Blind [Audiobook] download free by Oliver Sacks
- Listen audiobook: Island of the Colour-Blind
- Author: Oliver Sacks
- Release date: 2012/6/25
- Publisher: PAN MACMILLAN
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780330526104
- Rating: 8.38 of 10
- Votes: 718
- Review by: Kathrin Stevens
- Review rating: 9.41 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/8
- Duration: 4H50M47S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, WAV, MPEG4, AC3, MP3, MPEG-4 ALS, FLAC (compression ZIP, RPM, ACE, AZW4, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 384
- Includes a PDF summary of 44 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 34M24S (8.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Sacks is rightly renowned for his empathy ...anyone with a taste for the exotic will find this beautifully written book highly engaging' Sunday Times Always fascinated by islands, Oliver Sacks is drawn to the Pacific by reports of the tiny atoll of Pingelap, with its isolated community of islanders born totally colour-blind; and to Guam, where he investigates a puzzling paralysis endemic there for a century. Along the way, he re-encounters the beautiful, primitive island cycad trees - and these become the starting point for a meditation on time and evolution, disease and adaptation, and islands both real and metaphorical. 'This is a wonderful book, made better by Sacks' exceptionally gentle descriptions of patients. He also captures the unimaginable sadness of the Pacific' Spectator 'Dr Sacks is an elegant and beguiling writer, and when he describes a condition such as achromatopsia (total colour-blindness), he is not content merely to describe it from the outside, but he tries to imagine what the world is like to a person with the condition' Sunday Telegraph 'There is no one at the present time who writes like Oliver Sacks ...He is a superb clinician who can take a seemingly arid and obscure medical condition, and convert it into a moving, personal odyssey, a testament of tenacity, courage and will' Literary Review
- Other categories, genre or collection: Science: General Issues, Human Biology, Popular Science, Travel Writing, Anthropology
- Download servers: X Cloud, Torrent, Uploaded, Hotfile, RoarFiles, FreakShare. Compressed in ZIP, RPM, ACE, AZW4, RAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.20 USD
- Dimensions: 130x197x27mm
- Weight: 314g
- Printed by: PICADOR
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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