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008			960729s1997 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010			_a 96034252
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050	0	0	_aRE921 _b.S23 1997
055	0	1	_aRE921
060	0	0	_a1997 B-628
060	1	0	_aWZ 100 _bS1216 1997
082	0	0	_a617.7/59/09966 _220
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100	1		_aSacks, Oliver W. _918976
240	1	0	_aIsland of the colorblind
245	1	4	_aThe island of the colorblind ; _band, Cycad island /
246	3		_aIsland of the colorblind ; and Cycad island
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bA.A. Knopf : _bDistributed by Random House, _c1997.
300			_axv, 298 p. : _bill., maps (some col.) ; _c22 cm.
500			_aColored maps on endpapers.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-280) and index.
505	0		_aBook one, The island of the colour-blind -- Book two, Cycad Island.
520			_aOliver 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	1	6	_aSacks, Oliver, _d1933- _xVoyages _zPingelap (Micron�esie : �Ile) _919031
600	1	6	_aSacks, Oliver, _d1933- _xVoyages _zGuam. _919032
600	1	2	_aSacks, Oliver W. _918976
650		0	_aColor blindness _zCaroline Islands. _919033
650		0	_aParkinson's disease _zGuam. _919034
650		0	_aDementia _zGuam. _919035
650		0	_aAmyotrophic lateral sclerosis _zGuam. _919036
650		0	_aChamorro (Micronesian people) _xDiseases. _919037
650		0	_aPingelap (Micronesian people) _xDiseases. _919038
650		0	_aCycads _zGuam. _919039
650		0	_aMedical anthropology _zMicronesia. _919040
650		6	_aAchromatopsie _zPingelap (Micron�esie : �Ile) _919041
650		6	_aNerveux, Syst�eme _xD�eg�en�erescence _zGuam. _919042
650		6	_aParalysie _zGuam. _919043
650	1	7	_aNeurobiologie. _2gtt _919044
650	1	7	_aKleurenblindheid. _2gtt _919045
650	1	2	_aPhysicians _vAutobiography. _919046
650	2	2	_aTravel _vAutobiography. _919047
651		0	_aMicronesia _xDescription and travel. _919048
700	1	2	_aSacks, Oliver W. _tCycad island. _919049
740	0	2	_aCycad island.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random057/96034252.html
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random044/96034252.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0410/96034252.html
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