The River of Consciousness

Synopsis

From the bestselling author of the man who mistook his wife for a hat, a collection of essays that displays oliver sacks's passionate engagement with the most compelling ideas of human endeavor: evolution, creativity, memory, time, consciousness, and experience. "curious, avid and thrillingly fluent. " —the new york times book reviewin the pieces that comprise the river of consciousness, dr. Sacks takes on evolution, botany, chemistry, medicine, neuroscience, and the arts, and calls upon his great scientific and creative heroes--above all, darwin, freud, and william james.