| TITLE: |
The island of the colorblind and Cycad Island / by Oliver Sacks. |
| ADDED TITLE: |
Cycad Island |
| ADDED TITLE: |
Island of the colorblind |
| AUTHOR: |
Sacks, Oliver W. |
| PUBLISHED: |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
xv, 298 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| EDITION: |
1st ed. |
| NOTES: |
Maps on endpapers. |
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Cover title: Island of the colorblind. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-280) and index. |
| NOTES: |
Wilson's Public Library |
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School Library Journal |
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Library Journal |
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The author, a neurologist, tells of his journey to Pingelap where he went to observe a community of islanders born with hereditary total colorblindness, and a subsequent visit to Guam where he went to investigate a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that has been plaguing people for over a century. |
| NOTES: |
Two independent narratives of the doctor's journeys to Micronesia to study hereditary total colorblindness on the islands of Pingelap and Pohnpei, and a progressive, fatal neurodegenerative disorder on Guam and Rota. |
| NOTES: |
Interest level: Young Adult |
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| SUBJECT: |
Achromatopsia. |
| SUBJECT: |
Color blindness--Pingelap (Pohnpei, Micronesia). |
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Color blindness. |
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Parkinsonism--Guam. |
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Dementia--Guam. |
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Medical anthropology--Oceania. |
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Parkinsonism. |
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Dementia. |
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Anthropology. |
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