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A curious man

the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley

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An edition of A curious man (2013)

A curious man

the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley

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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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Random House
Language
English
Pages
421

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Subjects
Publishers and publishing, Journalists, Biography, Publishers and publishing, united states, Journalists, biography, Journalists, united states
People
Robert L. Ripley (1890-1949)
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United States

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Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert Believe It or Not! Ripley
2014, Crown/Archetype
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A curious man: the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
2013, Random House
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Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert 'Believe It or Not' Ripley
2013, Penguin Random House
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A curious man: the strange and brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
2013, Crown Publishers
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Curious Man
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One of the most successful entertainment figures of his time, Robert Ripley's life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. He sold his first cartoon to Life magazine at eighteen, but it was his wildly popular 'Believe It or Not!' radio shows that won him international fame, and spurred him on to search the globe's farthest corners for bizarre facts, human curiosities and shocking phenomena. By the 1930s, Ripley possessed a wide fortune, a private yacht and a huge mansion. This compelling biography portrays a man who was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual
but who may have been the most amazing oddity of all.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
031.092
Library of Congress
PN4874.R53

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Pagination
421 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
421

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OL29469312M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
1847947204
ISBN 13
9781847947208
OCLC/WorldCat
857656180

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The marvelously compelling biography of Robert Ripley, the enigmatic cartoonist turned globetrotting millionaire who won international fame by celebrating the world's strangest oddities.

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