Tuva or Bust!

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ijtmamm'é'mmm* wmmvmv physicist jazz^d a" beQan When Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning coliinn c , rHrTler. all-around character, and author of the bestsemng Surelv Ynn'ro /„/ • friend and Feynman!, asked this question of his an colaborator Ralph Leighton over dinner one night. It took ten years to ind the answer, as the two men fotíowed a trail of dated travel lournals and Soviet radio broadcasts to a remote region in central Asia- a place whose capital doesn't have a singie legitimate vowel and whose natives practice a bizarre form of "throat-singing." But this exhilarating book alsó records Feynman's valiant ten-year struggle with cancer, his battle with NASA bureaucracy as he tried to unearth the truth about the Challenger disaster as a member of the Rogers Commission, and an extraordinary friendship between two zany strategists that ended only with Feynman's death. Tuva or Bustl is high adventure of the mind and spirit, overflowing with inteliectual curiosity and a sense of... Tovább

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ijtmamm'é'mmm* wmmvmv physicist jazz^d a" beQan When Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize-winning coliinn c , rHrTler. all-around character, and author of the bestsemng Surelv Ynn'ro /„/ • friend and Feynman!, asked this question of his an colaborator Ralph Leighton over dinner one night. It took ten years to ind the answer, as the two men fotíowed a trail of dated travel lournals and Soviet radio broadcasts to a remote region in central Asia- a place whose capital doesn't have a singie legitimate vowel and whose natives practice a bizarre form of "throat-singing." But this exhilarating book alsó records Feynman's valiant ten-year struggle with cancer, his battle with NASA bureaucracy as he tried to unearth the truth about the Challenger disaster as a member of the Rogers Commission, and an extraordinary friendship between two zany strategists that ended only with Feynman's death. Tuva or Bustl is high adventure of the mind and spirit, overflowing with inteliectual curiosity and a sense of the utter gravity of fun. "Animated by irrepressible high spirits, this serendipitous saga is a tale of adventure, heartbreak, and rare friendship." -PMishers weekiy "A bittersweet testament to the inteliectual tenacty and quirky high spir- ||; its of a man dedicated above all to getting straight answers to simple ||| lcs ül d -The Boston Globe fm* Vissza