Oliver Sacks: An Anthropologist on Mars [2012] paperback ZAUDI Winner of the Wainwright Prize

Winner of the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing 2021

His beloved wife Meena and other lost souls have fallen under the Count's horrifying spell

and raising their voices against the prejudice and criticism they are subject to

In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses

"Reading this book was like sitting down for a nice long chat with an old friend

Oliver Sacks: An Anthropologist on Mars [2012] paperback ZAUDI Winner of the Wainwright PrizeAs with his previous bestseller, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, in An Anthropologist on Mars Oliver Sacks uses case studies to illustrate the myriad ways in which neurological conditions can affect our sense of self, our experience of the world, and how we relate to those around us. Writing with his trademark blend of scientific rigour and human compassion, he describes patients such as the colour blind painter or the surgeon with compulsive