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Article: The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island.(Review)
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- The Contemporary Pacific
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island, by Oliver Sacks. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1997. ISBN 0-679-45114-5, xv + 298 pages. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$24.
Oliver Sacks, professor of neurology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and author of several popularly acclaimed books, has written an account of his travels to Micronesia. He describes his book as a "very personal, idiosyncratic, perhaps eccentric view of the islands, informed in part by a lifelong romance with islands and island botany" (xii). It certainly is that. Sacks recounts two trips to the region, though the exact dates of these journeys remain unclear. The ...