内容紹介
The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is well know as an explorer of the human mind—a neurologist with a gift for complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions. However, 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 in many climates.
Oaxaca Journal is Sacks's spellbinding account of his trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca, Mexico. Bringing together Sacks's passion for natural history and the richness of human culture with his sharp eye for detail, Oaxaca Journal is a captivating evocation of a place, its plants, its people, and its myriad wonders.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Oaxaca Journal is Sacks's spellbinding account of his trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca, Mexico. Bringing together Sacks's passion for natural history and the richness of human culture with his sharp eye for detail, Oaxaca Journal is a captivating evocation of a place, its plants, its people, and its myriad wonders.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
人間存在を見つめる脳神経科医オリヴァー・サックスが深く愛するシダ植物と向きあうと…植物愛好家でもあるサックスはメキシコ南部のオアハカ州を訪れる―一週間におよぶシダ観察ツアーに参加するのだ。手にしたノートには、シダの楽園での出来事や目にしたものが喜びと興奮をもって細かに記されていく。また、観光客らしく、遺跡に残された古代文明の叡知に感嘆する一方でこの国の植民地時代の暗い歴史に思いをはせるなどそのまなざしの鋭さに変わりはない。博物学の彩りも豊かに読む人を魅了する、奥深い旅の“日誌”。
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