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English
Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
01 September 2019
As with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world and how we relate to those around us.

Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour-blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive tics that disappear in the operating theatre – patients for whom disorientation and alienation – but also adaptation – are inescapable facts of life.

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Imprint:   Bolinda/Macmillan Audio
Country of Publication:   Australia
Edition:   Unabridged edition
Dimensions:   Height: 122mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   68g
ISBN:   9781529011647
ISBN 10:   1529011647
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Audio
Publisher's Status:   Active

Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, bestselling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine'. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, before his death in August 2015. Oliver Sacks, M.D. was a physician, bestselling author, and professor of neurology at the NYU School of Medicine. The New York Times has referred to him as 'the poet laureate of medicine'. He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain and An Anthropologist on Mars. Awakenings, his book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award-nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams. Dr Sacks was a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, before his death in August 2015. Jonathan Davis is a critically acclaimed narrator and voiceover actor. He has narrated more than 350 audiobooks, including a variety of bestsellers and award-winners. Davis is a three-time recipient and 14-time nominee of the celebrated Audie Award. He is also active in the voiceover industry providing voice work for films, documentaries, video games and animation.

Reviews for An Anthropologist on Mars

'An inexhaustible tourist at the farther reaches of the mind, Sacks presents, in sparse, unsentimental prose, the stories of seven of his patients. The result is as rich, vivid and compelling as any collection of short fictional stories.' -- The Independent on Sunday 'Writing simply and beautifully, Sacks uses individual case histories to reveal the infinite complexities of the human mind.' -- The Daily Mail


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