Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood - Softcover

"A rare gem.... Fresh, joyous, wistful, generous, and tough-minded."-The New York Times Book Review

"This book underlies everything else Dr. Sacks has written, and is worthy to stand with the great scientific memoirs, for it's passion, its insight, its sense of history and its felicity." -Paul Theroux

"Fired by Sacks's enthusiasm-obviously genuine, impossible to feign-bursting forth in all directions. . . .The book recounts the growth of a formidable young mind opening up to the order and beauty of the material world." -Newsday

"Sack's study of a mind [is] as tough as tungsten, as fluid as mercury . . . as precious as gold." -The Seattle Times

The scientific wonder of youth is skillfully evoked in this intriguing memoir by the distinguished neurologist and author of Awakenings in which he describes his fascination with metals, gases, and chemicals, especially "Uncle Tungsten," and with unravelling the complex mysteries of the world around him. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.