ISBN: 0307402169 9780307402165

Category: Travel / Mexico

Page count: 160

"I have been an inveterate keeper of journals since I was 14 especially at times of adventure and crisis and travel. Here, for the first time, such a journal made its way to publication, not that much changed from the raw, handwritten journal that I kept during my fascinated 9 days in Oaxaca." Dr. Oliver Sacks<br> <br>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 and their ability to survive and adapt. Now the bestselling author of <b>Awakenings</b><i> </i>and <b>The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat</b><i> </i>brings his ceaseless curiosity and eye for the wondrous to the province of Oaxaca, Mexico. <b>Oaxaca Journal</b><i> </i>is Sacks's spellbinding account of his trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca. Bringing together Sacks's passion for natural history and the richness of human culture with his penetrating curiosity and trammeling eye for detail, <b>Oaxaca Journal</b><i> </i>is a captivating evocation of a places, its plants, its people and its myriad wonders.