Read by Oliver Sacks and Richard Davidson

In The Mind's Eye, Oliver Sacks tells the stories of people who are able to
navigate the world and communicate with others despite losing what many of us
consider indispensable senses and abilities: the power of speech, the capacity
to recognize faces, the sense of three-dimensional space, the ability to read,
the sense of sight. For all of these people, the challenge is to adapt to
a radically new way of being in the world.

There is Lilian, a concert pianist who becomes unable to read, and Sue who
has never seen in three dimensions, until she suddenly acquires stereoscopic
vision. There is Pat, who reinvents herself as an active member of her
community, despite the fact that she cannot utter a sentence, and Howard,
a prolific novelist who continues his life as a writer even after a stroke
destroys his ability to read. And there is Dr. Sacks himself, who tells the
story of his own eye cancer and of losing vision to one side.

Sacks explores some very strange paradoxes. He also considers more
fundamental questions: How do we see? How do we think? How important is
internal imagery--or vision, for that matter? The Mind's Eye is a testament
to the complexity of vision and the brain and to the power of creativity
and adaptation.

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