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UNCLE TUNGSTEN
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| By: |
Oliver Sacks |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0330390287 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330390286 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
23 August, 2002 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
From Oliver Sacks, distinguished neurologist and master storyteller, comes a magical account of childhood, told with the charm and power of his celebrated case histories. |
| Synopsis: |
In "Uncle Tungsten" Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shape his later life. And we hear of his return to London, an emotionally bereft ten-year-old who found solace in his passion for learning. "Uncle Tungsten" radiates all the delight and wonder of a boy's adventures, and is an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary young mind. "If you did not think that gallium and iridium could move you, this superb book will change your mind". (The Times). "The amalgamation of personal recollection and scientific history makes a luminous, inspiring book". ("Sunday Telegraph"). ""Uncle Tungsten" is really about the raw joy of scientific understanding; what it is like to be a precocious child discovering the alchemical secrets of reality for the first time; the sheer thrill of finding intelligible patterns in nature". ("Guardian"). |
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portraits |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize for Non-fiction 2002
Short-listed for Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize: Non-fiction 2002 |
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Returnable |
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