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"An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain," writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, "Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands." Both kinds figure movingly in this book--part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical mystery story--in which Sacks's journeys to a tiny Pacific atoll and the island of Guam become explorations of the meaning of islands, the genesis of disease, the wonders of botany, the nature of deep geological time, and the complexities of being human.
About: Oliver Sacks has always been fascinated by islands--their remoteness, their mystery, above all the unique forms of life they harbor.
About: "An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain," writes D.
About: The author describes his journey to the islands of the Pacific, recounting a stay on an island inhabited by an isolated colorblind community and his investigation into a baffling neurodegenerative paralysis on Guam.
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