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Also by Oliver Sacks:

On the Move, May 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Awakenings, June 2013
e-Book (reprint)
Hallucinations, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Musicophilia, October 2008
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Musicophilia, October 2007
Hardcover
Oaxaca Journal, October 2005
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, April 1996
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OAXACA JOURNAL
By: Oliver Sacks

Bringing together Sacks's passion for natural history and the richness of human culture with his sharp eye for detail, Oaxaca Journal is a captivating evocation of a place, its plants, its people, and its myriad wonders.

National Geographic
October 2005
160 pages
ISBN: 0792242084
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The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind—a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, he is also a card-carrying member of the American Fern Society, and since childhood has been fascinated by these primitive plants and their ability to survive and adapt in many climates.

Oaxaca Journal is Sacks's spellbinding account of his trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca, Mexico. Bringing together Sacks's passion for natural history and the richness of human culture with his sharp eye for detail, Oaxaca Journal is a captivating evocation of a place, its plants, its people, and its myriad wonders.

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All Things Considered - December 31, 2005