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In An Anthropologist on Mars (1995), Sacks deepens his focus ( The Man Who Mistook comprised more than 24 cases, An Anthropologist only seven), entering the world of his subjects, seeing their daily lives, traveling with them (most of his earlier cases were observed in hospital settings), and consequently his accounts become the more affecting even as they involve more hard science.
NATO said the plane's crew mistook the caravan for a Serbian military convoy.
This gentle Star Trek spoof strikes a chord; it's "a fast, loose, and very funny parody that pulls off the not-so-simple feat of tweaking Trekkies and honoring them" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The film's premise: A group of middle-aged actors from a long-canceled space show get "spacejacked by naive aliens in need of protection" who mistook the program for a historical document (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). The result is campy, goofy, and "funny without being flip" (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). (Click here to read an interview with Sigourney Weaver about her character in the movie.)
His best-known book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (1985), is less a freak show than a gallery in which we can see ourselves reflected variously, with one element out of whack, fun-house-mirror style.
It was named Cap Diamant, after the shiny stones that Jacques Cartier mistook for diamonds (see page 14).