The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island
by:
Oliver Sacks (author)
Drawn to the tiny atoll of Pingelap where the natives are born color-blind, Sacks listens to the islanders describe their world in ways he never thought possible. Other island-hopping adventures include encounters in Pohnpei, Cycad, and Rota.
Drawn to the tiny atoll of Pingelap where the natives are born color-blind, Sacks listens to the islanders describe their world in ways he never thought possible. Other island-hopping adventures include encounters in Pohnpei, Cycad, and Rota.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679451143 (0679451145)
Publish date: 1997-01-07
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf
Pages no: 298
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Writing,
Essays,
Science,
Biology,
Health,
Medical,
Psychology,
Medicine,
Neuroscience,
Brain
I KNEW, KNEW that Oliver Sacks wouldn't give me informative details on the epidemiology of islands. His chatty, superficial, and self-absorbed style made me drop both his Hat and Awakenings books and give it 4 stars anyway, out of what, charity? But this one I bought new, with high hopes anyway, and...
There is a type of complete colorblindness, achromatopsia, where people do not have functional cones in their eyes and are almost blind in sunlight because of the sensitivity of the rods. Achromatopsia, unlike red-green colorblindness, is very rare. The island of Fuur and the island of Pingelap both...
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