A curious man
the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
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Word Count
105,250 words, Guess
Page Count
421 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivecuriousmanstrang0000thom
- ISBN-101847947204
- ISBN-139781847947208
- OCLC Control Number857656180
- Better World Books9781847947208
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL29469312M
Classifications
- DDC031.092
- LCCPN4874.R53
Description
The marvelously compelling biography of Robert Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities.
Description
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL, POLITICAL & MILITARY. Robert Ripley's life is the stuff of a classic fairytale. Buck-toothed and cursed by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation for the strangeness of the world. After selling his first cartoon to Time magazine at the age of eighteen, more cartooning triumphs followed, but it was his "Believe It or Not" conceit and the wildly popular radio shows it spawned that would make him one of the most successful entertainment figures of his time and spur him to search the globe's farthest corners for bizarre facts, exotic human curiosities, and shocking phenomena.
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