Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Tuva or Bust! (1991) is a book by Ralph Leighton about the author and his friend Richard Feynman's attempt to travel to Tuva.The introduction explains how Feynman challenged Leighton, at the time a high school math teacher, \"Whatever happened to Tannu Tuva (the Tuvan People's Republic)?\" Since Feynman had a reputation as a prankster and had proven himself entirely capable of inventing a fictional country name to confound friends, Leighton assumed it was made up."@en }
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- Tuva_or_Bust! comment "Tuva or Bust! (1991) is a book by Ralph Leighton about the author and his friend Richard Feynman's attempt to travel to Tuva.The introduction explains how Feynman challenged Leighton, at the time a high school math teacher, \"Whatever happened to Tannu Tuva (the Tuvan People's Republic)?\" Since Feynman had a reputation as a prankster and had proven himself entirely capable of inventing a fictional country name to confound friends, Leighton assumed it was made up.".