Oliver Sacks is best known as an explorer of the human mind, a neurologist with a gift for the complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions that fuel the phenomenal success of his books. But he is also a card-carrying member of the American Fern Society, and since childhood has been fascinated by these primitive plants. Now the best-selling author of
Awakenings and
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat brings his ceaseless curiosity and eye for the wondrous to the province of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Oaxaca Journal is Sacks's spellbinding account of his trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province. Bringing together a passion for natural history and the richness of human culture with a penetrating curiosity and trammeling eye for detail,
Oaxaca Journal is a captivating evocation of a place, its plants, and its people.
- 184 pages
- 5 1/4" x 8 1/8"
- Hardcover
- © 2002
