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The island of the colorblind ; (Record no. 28787)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 96034252
016 7# - NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER
Record control number 9704102
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Record control number 96931809X
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0679451145
International Standard Book Number 9780679451143
International Standard Book Number 0676970354
International Standard Book Number 9780676970357
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number RE921
Item number .S23 1997
055 01 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED IN CANADA
Classification number RE921
060 00 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER
Classification number 1997 B-628
Classification number WZ 100
Item number S1216 1997
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 617.7/59/09966
Edition number 20
084 ## - OTHER CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 44.73
Source of number bcl
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sacks, Oliver W.
9 (RLIN) 18976
240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title <a href="Island of the colorblind">Island of the colorblind</a>
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The island of the colorblind ;
Remainder of title and, Cycad island /
246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Island of the colorblind ; and Cycad island
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc A.A. Knopf :
-- Distributed by Random House,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1997.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 298 p. :
Other physical details ill., maps (some col.) ;
Dimensions 22 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Colored maps on endpapers.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-280) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Book one, The island of the colour-blind -- Book two, Cycad Island.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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 colorblind, 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.
600 16 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sacks, Oliver,
Dates associated with a name 1933-
General subdivision Voyages
Geographic subdivision Pingelap (Micron�esie : �Ile)
9 (RLIN) 19031
Personal name Sacks, Oliver,
Dates associated with a name 1933-
General subdivision Voyages
Geographic subdivision Guam.
9 (RLIN) 19032
Personal name Sacks, Oliver W.
9 (RLIN) 18976
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Color blindness
Geographic subdivision Caroline Islands.
9 (RLIN) 19033
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Parkinson's disease
Geographic subdivision Guam.
9 (RLIN) 19034
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Dementia
Geographic subdivision Guam.
9 (RLIN) 19035
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Geographic subdivision Guam.
9 (RLIN) 19036
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Chamorro (Micronesian people)
General subdivision Diseases.
9 (RLIN) 19037
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Pingelap (Micronesian people)
General subdivision Diseases.
9 (RLIN) 19038
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cycads
Geographic subdivision Guam.
9 (RLIN) 19039
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Medical anthropology
Geographic subdivision Micronesia.
9 (RLIN) 19040
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Achromatopsie
Geographic subdivision Pingelap (Micron�esie : �Ile)
9 (RLIN) 19041
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Nerveux, Syst�eme
General subdivision D�eg�en�erescence
Geographic subdivision Guam.
9 (RLIN) 19042
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Paralysie
Geographic subdivision Guam.
9 (RLIN) 19043
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Neurobiologie.
Source of heading or term gtt
9 (RLIN) 19044
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Kleurenblindheid.
Source of heading or term gtt
9 (RLIN) 19045
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Physicians
Form subdivision Autobiography.
9 (RLIN) 19046
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Travel
Form subdivision Autobiography.
9 (RLIN) 19047
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Micronesia
General subdivision Description and travel.
9 (RLIN) 19048
700 12 - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sacks, Oliver W.
Title of a work Cycad island.
9 (RLIN) 19049
740 02 - ADDED ENTRY--UNCONTROLLED RELATED/ANALYTICAL TITLE
Uncontrolled related/analytical title Cycad island.
856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
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