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Uncle Tungsten. Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. - signed or inscribed book
2001
ISBN: 1e7d8ef2acb89dcbc7972697c4b1555d
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Uncle Tungsten. Memories of a Chemical Boyhood - First edition
2002, ISBN: 1e7d8ef2acb89dcbc7972697c4b1555d
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Near Fine, [PU: Picador], Complete number line indicates first printing. Very slightly shelf worn, but tight, clean, unmarked. Excellent condition., Books
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood - signed or inscribed book
2001, ISBN: 1e7d8ef2acb89dcbc7972697c4b1555d
First edition
[PU: Alfred A. Knopf], CHEMISTRY., Jacket, Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in fine dust jacket, in mylar cover.
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Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and best-selling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals - also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table.
In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded.
In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks' extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the 14-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his "Uncle Tungsten", whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his "chemical heroes" in his own home laboratory.
Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.
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Publishing year: 2001
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Book author: oliver sacks, sacks jonathan, jonathan davis
Book title: boyhood, uncle tungsten
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