Richard Feynman's last journey to Tuva.
Not sure when I read this - I failed to put the date in the back - perhaps I never got to the end.

Anyway an interesting side to the man who found the casue of the Challenger disaster.

To be released at the May London OBCZ later this evening.

Nabbed at the London BC Meetup. Onto the TBR shelf.

NB - Promised to Rillaith next.

Having already read 'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman' and 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?' (earlier Books by Leighton about Feynmann), reading this followed quite nicely (even though it didn't feature 'The Chief' nearly as much) since I already had the background. I'm not sure that, though, that readers who didn't already know of Feynmann would get that much of a sense of him from this book, which is a bit of shame.

I did think the book described very well the trials and tribulations of dealing with the then-Soviet bureacracy and just how convoluted even simple matters like eating in a restaurant could be. The descriptions of Tuva were also interesting and I was able to draw on a visit I made to Mongolia (I have slept in a yurt and drunk fermented mares milk, too!)to flesh things out some of the details provided.

Thanks to sesame-seven for releasing this. I'll pass or post it onto Rillaith.

Read a Feynman book when I was at university, and was thoroughly taken by it. Pounced on this book at a London meet a while back, and beat USC by millimetres - so suggested he take it first as it was likely that he'd be able to read it sooner than I!

Thanks for bringing it to The Clarence :)

USM is definitely right - this is closer to 'Playing the Moldovans at Tennis' than 'Surely You're Joking...' but it was still a great book. Having been to St Petersburg earlier this year, it was closer to life for me than it might have been otherwise - I recognised echoes of the Soviet bureaucracy from my visit.

Thanks for releasing this - I'll pass it onor wild-release it :)