"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.
Read More
"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.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Unclipped with minimal wear jacket. 254 p., clean and unmarked; insert newspaper clipping; binding firm; white boards with bright gilt lettering on red spine have minimal wear. Attached to front end page is 5" red flexi-disc sound sheet, probably 33 RPM, featuring Balkan songs: "Reka Alash" sung by Oorzhak Khunashtaar-Ool in the "sigit" or "whistling" style and "Artyy Saiyr" sung by D. Damba Darzha in the "kargyra" or "wheezing" style.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked showing light reader's use and handling, VG/VG. Quarter red cloth binding. Red phono disc of Tuvan throat singing still attached. 254pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. W. W. Norton & Company, 1991. 1st printing. Crisp and unmarked, NF/NF. Quarter red cloth binding. Red phono disc of Tuvan throat singing still attached. 254pp. In a very nice unclipped jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo-8"-9" Tall.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. (physicists, travel, Russia, Tuva, biography) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good. First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Very Good dust jacket. Throat singing flexi disk not included. Foxing on page edges. Shelf cocked. Shelf worn. Some buckling on top and bottom of spine. (biography, american, physicists, travel)
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Fine in fine dust jacket. Remainder. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 254 p. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover with dust jacket-half red cloth, half beige paper over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine. Sewn binding. 254 pages, with illustrations, 3 Appendices, index, and red plastic 33 1/3 record insert tipped in on ffep. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. CONDITION: Book: Remainder-AS NEW, save for remainder mark on foot of text block (small red star); binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked; DJ AS NEW, not clipped, protected in a clear archival (Mylar) cover. The book is tight and appears unread; the included record is attached as published and has never been played. CONTENT: This captivating book chronicles a quixotic decade-long quest to reach Tannu Tuva, an obscure spot on the globe that Feynman remembered because of an unusual stamp in his childhood stamp collection in the 1930s. Feynman and his fellow drummer and geographic buff sidekick, Ralph Leighton, decided to find it together. The journey to Tuva was Richard Feynman's last adventure, made while battling cancer and with NASA bureaucracy as a member of the Rogers Commission investigating the space shuttle Challenger disaster. The attached recording of Tuvy music included in this book reproduces 2 songs from Melodii Tuvy (GOST 5289-73)-one in the "whistling" style, and one in the "wheezing" style. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.
