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"An explorer of this most marvelous of destinations, the mind," creates D.M. Jones in The Brand New York Times Book Review, "Oliver Sacks also enjoys the oceanic type of destinations." Both sorts determine movingly in this book--part travelogue, part autobiography, part medical secret tale--by which Bagsis trips to some small Pacific atoll and the island of Guam become explorations of the meaning of destinations, the genesis of illness, the miracles of botany, the character of strong geological period, and the difficulties to be human.