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An Anthropologist on Mars

Paperback • 2012 • English

An Anthropologist on Mars

By Oliver Sacks

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About the book

'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' Independent on Sunday As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, 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 rel...Show more

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ISBN

9780330523608

Publisher

Picador

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

An Anthropologist on Mars

Format

Paperback

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