With Seeing Voices Dr Sacks launches us on a journey into the world of the deaf - which he explores with the same passion and insight that have illuminated other human conditions for his readers everywhere.

`Oliver Sacks, blessed with an understanding heart and poetic voice, speaks the language of the deaf. An exquisite, as well as revelatory, work' Studs Terkel

`This scholarly and carefully documented book is a landmark for deaf rights. It makes the gigantic, imaginative leap so essential to understanding total deafness' Jack Ashley, Sunday Telegraph

`Compelling . . . A journey well worth taking . . . One cannot read more than a few pages of Sacks without seeing something in a new way' Los Angeles Times

`Written by a hearing - and caring - neurologist who through empathy and contact has penetrated a long way into deaf culture. What he has written about should be compulsory reading - I do not recall another book which puts the issues so clearly for the rest of us' Alex Comfort, Guardian

`A manifesto characteristically humane and impassioned . . . Once more Sacks proves he is the doyen of science with a human face' Roy Porter, Sunday Times