An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

An Anthropologist on Mars

Oliver Sacks

327 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Neurological patients, Oliver Sacks once wrote, are travellers to unimaginable lands. An Anthropologist on Mars offers portraits of seven such travellers - including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is ope...

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4.07
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Moods

informative: 94%

reflective: 58%

inspiring: 32%

challenging: 28%

emotional: 23%

hopeful: 11%

funny: 8%

sad: 6%

adventurous: 5%

lighthearted: 2%

mysterious: 1%


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43% of readers chose slow
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