Full name: Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood

Author: Oliver Sacks Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780330390286 9780375704048 0330390287 0375704043

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. This book is part of the "Oliver Sacks' memoirs" series. Here are some other books from this series: "On the Move" First published in 2015 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: Similar books: On the Move by Oliver Sacks Avoid Boring People by James D. Watson Messages From My Father by Calvin Trillin Knots in My Yo-Yo String by Jerry Spinelli Looking Back by Lois Lowry The Bill from My Father by Bernard Cooper Traci Lords: Underneath It All by Traci Lords Kiss Me Like A Stranger by Gene Wilder In Spite of Myself by Christopher Plummer Ron Jeremy by Ron Jeremy Then Again by Diane Keaton My Own Two Feet by Beverly Cleary Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing Myself When Young by Daphne Du Maurier A Girl from Yamhill by Beverly Cleary A Leg to Stand On by Oliver Sacks Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard P. Feynman Better by Atul Gawande