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| Author | Oliver Sacks |
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| Cover artist | Chip Kidd |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | A.A. Knopf |
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Publication date
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1997 |
| Pages | 336 |
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| OCLC | 35235302 |
| Preceded by | An Anthropologist on Mars (1995) |
| Followed by | Uncle Tungsten (2001) |
The Island of the Colorblind is a book by neurologist Oliver Sacks about achromatopsia on the Micronesian atoll of Pingelap. It was published in the UK as The Island of the Colour-blind. The second half of the book is devoted to the mystery of Lytico-Bodig disease in Guam.