Oaxaca Journal
$24.83
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2027
Summary
Oliver Sacks, the bestselling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, is most famous for his studies of the human mind: insightful and beautifully characterized portraits of those experiencing complex neurological conditions. However, he has another scientific passion: the fern…
Since childhood, Oliver has been fascinated by the ability of these primitive plants to survive and adapt in many climates. Oaxaca Journal is the enthralling…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035091607 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035091607 |
| Author: | Oliver Sacks |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Picador Collection |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Like all the best journals, it has a rich immediacy … the book is a rare treat. * The Globe and Mail *
Sacks’s boundless curiosity is always a reward. * The New York Times *
Light and fast-moving, unburdened by library research but filled with erudition * The New Yorker *
Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks was born in 1933 in London and was educated at the Queen’s College, Oxford. He completed his medical training at San Francisco’s Mount Zion Hospital and at UCLA before moving to New York, where he soon encountered the patients whom he would write about in his book Awakenings.
Dr Sacks spent almost fifty years working as a neurologist and wrote many books, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, and Hallucinations, about the strange neurological predicaments and conditions of his patients. The New York Times referred to him as ‘the poet laureate of medicine’, and over the years he received many awards, including honours from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Royal College of Physicians.
In 2008, he was appointed Commander of the British Empire. His memoir, On the Move, was published shortly before his death in August 2015.
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