Of Ferns, Psychedelics and Neurological Trivia in Oaxaca

Neurologist and Awakenings author Oliver Sacks has joined the ranks of travel writers. Sacks’ latest book, Oaxaca Journal, documents his journey to Mexico to study ferns. Reviews are positive. “Thankfully, Sacks’s immense curiosity extends beyond ferns, so the result is a vivid journal filled with the region’s violent history of Aztec bloodlettings, the psychedelic mysteries of Oaxacan morning glories, and, of course, neurological trivia so strange it could come only from Sacks,” opines Men’s Journal. The Los Angeles Times also weighs in.

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