From the publisher. From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks -- the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time -- was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family of doctors, metallurgists, chemists, physicists, and teachers, his curiosity was encouraged and abetted by aunts, uncles, parents, and older brothers. But soon after his sixth birthday, the Second World War broke...