Author | Oliver Sacks |
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Cover artist | Chip Kidd |
Language | English |
Publisher | A.A. Knopf |
Publication date
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1997 |
Pages | 336 |
ISBN | |
OCLC | 35235302 |
Preceded by | An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) |
Followed by | Uncle Tungsten (2001) |
The Island of the Colorblind is a book by neurologist Oliver Sacks about achromatopsia on the Micronesian atoll of Pingelap. It was published in the UK as The Island of the Colour-blind. The second half of the book is devoted to the mystery of Lytico-Bodig disease in Guam.