UNCLE TUNGSTEN(ISBN=) 英文原版

  　Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished
neurologist and bestselling 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 fourteen-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.

　　Oliver Sacks is the author of Awakenings, The Man Who
Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and many other books, for which he
has received numerous awards, including the Hawthornden Prize, a
Polk Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, and lives in New York City,
where he is a practicing neurologist.

Uncle Tungsten
“37”
Exile
“An Ideal Metal”
Light for the Masses
The Land of Stibnite
Chemical Recreations
Stinks and Bangs
Housecalls
A Chemical Language
Humphry Davy: A Poet-Chemist
Images
Mr. Dalton’s Ro,und Bits of Wood
Lines of Force
Home Life
Mendeleev’s Garden
A Pocket Spectroscope
Cold Fire
Ma
Penetrating Rays
Madame Curie’s Element
Cannery Row
The World Set Free
Brilliant Light
The End of the Affair
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index
The Periodic Table of the Elements is on pages 192-193
A photographic insert follows page  150.

　　?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
　　– Review