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Readers whose appetites were whetted by the as-told-to collections of anecdotes in the Ralph Leighton books (Tuva or Bust!, 1991, etc.) will find gratification of a different kind here. That, and a no-nonsense attitude that despised pretension, lofty language, and rote learning.
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