The Island of the Colorblind | |
Author: | Oliver Sacks |
Cover Artist: | Chip Kidd |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Achromatopsia |
Publisher: | A.A. Knopf |
Pub Date: | 1997 |
Media Type: | |
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]