Article: NEUROLOGIST CHARTS TRAVELOGUE INTO BRAIN AND SOUTH SEAS.(Spotlight)

Byline: Abraham Verghese WashingtonPost Book World

The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island

By Oliver Sacks. Knopf.

298 pages. $24.

We have come to associate Oliver Sacks' writing with the exploration of the neurologically bizarre, the deviations from the norm of perception and sensation that he interprets for us, leaving us grateful that our own nervous system is working well.

The title may lead us to suppose that we are in for tales as fantastic as The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, an earlier book by Sacks.

But Island of the Colorblind is part South Seas travelogue, part natural history writing, and ...

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