Leighton Ralph. Tuva or bust! Richard Feynman's last journey

New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000. - 260 p. — ISBN: 0-393-32069-3. Unrecognized scan, good quality.In 1930s, a young stamp collector named Richard Feynman coveted the unusually exotic stamps from a land called Tannu Tuva, ringed by mountains deep in Siberia, just beyond Outer Mongolia.Forty years later, the maverick Nobel Prize - winning physicist challenged his side-kick, fellow drummer and geography enthusiast Ralph Leighton: "Whatever happened to Tannu Tuva?" Thus began a poignant and funny decade-long adventure. When the pair found Tuvas capital on the map,they were hooked. "Any place thats spelled K-Y-Z-Y-L," Feynman exclaimed, "has just got to be interesting!" In their efforts to reach Tuva, Leighton and Feynman learned of its resident shamanic shepherds who rever the Dalai Lama, discovered the wonders of "throat-singing",and brought to the United States the largest archaeological exhibition ever from the Soviet Union.There is no such country
Forty-five snowy I
Mysterious melodies
Hail to the chief
We appear in the center of Asia
Three americans reach Tuva
Meeting in Moscow
Amateur ambassadors
Clowns or con men?
The Keller accord
The trip is arranged
Catalina cowboys
The invitation arrives
Epilogue