The author of the bestselling An Anthropologist on Mars and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat journeys to a remote Pacific island for his latest fascinating book. Drawn to the island of Pingelap by reports of an isolated community of people born totally colorblind, Dr. Sacks sets up a clinic and listens as patients describe their colorless world in rich terms of pattern and tone, luminances and shadow. 10 drawings. 2 maps.
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The author of the bestselling An Anthropologist on Mars and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat journeys to a remote Pacific island for his latest fascinating book. Drawn to the island of Pingelap by reports of an isolated community of people born totally colorblind, Dr. Sacks sets up a clinic and listens as patients describe their colorless world in rich terms of pattern and tone, luminances and shadow. 10 drawings. 2 maps.
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Collectible, Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Octavo, hardcover, fine in near fine peach and blue decorative dj. 298 pp. including index. Endpapers show map of the Pacific and the Island of Pohnpei. 20 illustrations and 3 maps. Drawn to the tiny Pacific atoll of Pingelap by intriguing reports of an isolated community of islanders born totally color-blind, 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.
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