The Island of the Colorblind

The Island of the Colorblind

Author	Oliver Sacks
Cover artist	Chip Kidd
Language	English
Subject	Achromatopsia
Publisher	A.A. Knopf
Publication date	1997
Media type	Print
Pages	336
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]}

External links

• The Island of the Colorblind
• C-SPAN book discussion on The Island of the Colorblind, February 9, 1997
• The Case of the Colorblind Painter

References

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