Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965 Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists but he was also a man who fell often jumped into adventure An artist safecracker practical joker & storyteller Feynman's life was a series of combustible combinations made possible by his unique mixture of high intelligence unquenchable curiosity & eternal scepticism Over a period of years Feynman's conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped & then set down as they appear here little changed from their spoken form giving a wise funny passionate & totally honest self-portrait of one of the greatest men of our age