The Island of the Colorblind

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The Island of the Colorblind
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Author Oliver Sacks
Cover artist Chip Kidd
LanguageEnglish
Subject Achromatopsia
PublisherA.A. Knopf
Publication date
1997
Media typePrint
Pages336
ISBN 978-0-676-97035-7
OCLC 35235302
Preceded by An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) 
Followed by Uncle Tungsten (2001) 

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 [1] [2] [3] .

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References

  1. "BBC Episode Guide for The Mind Traveller" . Retrieved July 20, 2021.
  2. "IMDB entry for The Mind Traveller" . Retrieved July 20, 2021.
  3. Brennan, Patricia (August 23, 1998). "'THE MIND TRAVELLER'". Washington Post. Washington Post. Retrieved July 20, 2021.