Leighton: Tuva or Bust - Richard Feynamn'S Last Journey

by RLEIGHTON (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $11.67

  So you think you know every country in the world , world-renowned physicist and prankster Richard Feynman said to his sidekick, geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton. Okay . . . what ever happened to Tanna Tuva? And so began their decade-long quest to reach the mysterious country, struggling with the NASA bureaucracy and bouts of cancer in an entertaining saga of two zany strategists. Photographs.

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.28

  This is an account of how Leighton and Feynman tried to get to Tannu Tuva, a tiny, once independent country in Soviet Siberia. Their correspondence with the Tuvans, their interest in Hoomei and the Tuvan singing style that involves producing two notes simultaneously are described in this book. Throughout their struggles with Soviet bureaucracy and their dealings with Soviet scientists and Western anthropologists, Radio Moscow and the Gothenburg Historical Museum, Feynman was fighting a losing battle with cancer. Their quest ended in triumph and sadness. Shortly before the Soviet Academy of Sciences formally invited Feynman to visit Novosibirsk, Moscow - and Tuva - he died. This is the third and last of the trilogy of books that chronicle the adventures of a curious character , the first two being Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! and What do You Care What Other People Think? .