num_pages: 256
description: From the best-selling author of Gratitude On the Move and Musicophilia a collection of essays that displays Oliver Sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling and seminal ideas of human endeavor: evolution creativity memory time consciousness and experience.Oliver Sacks a scientist and a storyteller is beloved by readers for the extraordinary neurological case histories (Awakenings An Anthropologist on Mars) in which he introduced and explored many now familiar disorders--autism Tourette's syndrome face blindness savant syndrome. He was also a memoirist who wrote with honesty and humor about the remarkable and strange encounters and experiences that shaped him (Uncle Tungsten On the Move Gratitude). Sacks an Oxford-educated polymath had a deep familiarity not only with literature and medicine but with botany animal anatomy chemistry the history of science philosophy and psychology. The River of Consciousness is one of two books Sacks was working on up to his death and it reveals his ability to make unexpected connections his sheer joy in knowledge and his unceasing timeless project to understand what makes us human.
language: English
title: The River of Consciousness
publisher: Knopf