While the book sets out to discuss one aspect of physics, it feels obliged to go on a circumnavigation of much of the physics of the past 100 years in order to explain the one specific aspect.
Round we go again - our third circumnavigation - while Tom takes yet more directions over the phone from Tony Walters.
By the time we had driven around the block, including another crazy circumnavigation of the Arc de Triomphe, the space had been filled by another car.
Sir Francis Chichester made a successful solo circumnavigation of the world in 1966-77.