- Title:
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An Anthropologist on Mars
- Written by:
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Oliver Sacks
- Read by:
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Jonathan Davis; Oliver Sacks
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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9
- Duration:
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11 hours 42 minutes
- Published:
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September 01 2019
- Available Date:
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September 01 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529011630
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Medicine; Psychology; Science & Technology
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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#1 bestselling author
Seven paradoxical tales of patients adapting to neurological conditions including autism, Asperger’s syndrome, amnesia and Tourette’s syndrome.
As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world and how we relate to those around us.
Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre – patients for whom disorientation and alienation – but also adaptation – are inescapable facts of life.
'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories.'
The Independent on Sunday
'Writing simply and beautifully, Sacks uses individual case histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human mind.'
The Daily Mail