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An anthropologist on Mars: seven paradoxical tales

By Oliver W Sacks. 1995

DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Award winning fictionBestsellers (Non-fiction), Health and medicine, Medicine
Human-narrated audio

Case histories of people with neurological disorders who reconstruct the world according to their needs. Comfortable with his forty-five years…

of blindness, one man is confused by the sudden restoration of his sight. An autistic zoology professor is at ease with animals but cannot bear human contact. Each tale portrays a patient with a condition such as Tourette's Syndrome, deafness, or amnesia. Bestseller. Winner of the 1997 CNIB Talking Book of the Year Award. 1995.

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