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 Trade Size Add to Wish List
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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