- Biography, Description and travel, Journeys, Physicists
Recounts the decade-long quest of Feynman and Leighton to reach Tannu Tuva in Northwest Mongolia.
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Classical in form, warm, resolved and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Ralph Leighton
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- Viking, Penguin (Non-Classics), W.W. Norton
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140156140
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First sentence
“THE plates were being cleared from the table, and I had just begun finishing off the salad-part of what had become a weekly ritual at the Feynmans'.”
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