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The bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat describes how we experience the visual world.

About the Author

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. Richard Davidson is an actor and Earphones Award-winning narrator. Trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, he is well versed in theatre and has had a long-standing career in acting, including a lead role in the show Diamonds, which aired on the CBS network, and a part in ESPN’s The Hustle.

Reviews

'Oliver Sacks is a perfect antidote to the anaesthetic of familiarity. His writing turns brains and minds transparent.'
*The Observer*

'... Sacks's most powerful book to date.'
*The Sunday Telegraph*

'Packed with wisdom, humour, extraordinary human stories and reflections on how we all perceive the world ... He ends with a brilliant discussion of blindness and the ways in which blind people develop visual concepts. Heartily recommended.'
*Reader's Digest*