Hardcover, 345 pages
Published Jan. 1, 1996 by Picador.
Oliver Sacks: The Island of the Colour-blind (Hardcover, 1996, Picador)
Hardcover, 345 pages
Published Jan. 1, 1996 by Picador.
The Island of the Colorblind is a 1997 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. The subject was also presented in an episode of the BBC documentary series The Mind Traveller.