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The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well known 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' 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.

PLEASE NOTE: Some changes have been made to the original manuscript with the permission of Oliver Sacks.

©2002 Oliver Sacks (P)2011 Audible, Inc. Amérique du Nord Divertissement et célébrités Essais et carnets de voyage Science Sciences biologiques États-Unis

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"[The book] is light and fast-moving, unburdened by library research but filled with erudition.... Among the botanical and anthropological observations, one catches glimpses of Sacks's inner life: his preoccupation with dualities, his nearly Victorian sense of modesty, his fascination with the world around him." (The New Yorker)
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Not sure what I was expecting, but this was completely different than other Sacks books I have read. This really is his travel journal from a trip to Mexico with a group of botanists. It’s not something I know much about, but still enjoyed it. If you into ferns, you will love it.

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