\nOliver Sacks is best known as an explorer of the human mind, a neurologist with a gift for the complex, insightful portrayals of people and their conditions that fuel the phenomenal success of his books. But he is also a card-carrying member of the American Fern Society, and since childhood has been fascinated by these primitive plants and their ability to survive and adapt. Now the best-selling author of "Awakenings" and "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" brings his ceaseless curiosity and eye for the wondrous to the province of Oaxaca, Mexico. \n"Oaxaca Journal" is Sacks’s spellbinding account of his recent trip with a group of fellow fern enthusiasts to the beautiful, history-steeped province of Oaxaca. Bringing together Sacks’s passion for natural history and the richness of human culture with his penetrating curiosity and trammeling eye for detail, "Oaxaca Journal" is a captivating evocation of a places, its plants, its people, and its myriad wonders.