The Island of the Colorblind

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The Island of the Colorblind  
Author(s) Oliver Sacks
Language English
Publisher A.A. Knopf
Publication date 1997
Pages 336
ISBN 978-0676970357
OCLC Number 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. The second half of the book is devoted to the mystery of Lytico-Bodig disease in Guam.

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