A curious man
Subtitle: the strange & brilliant life of Robert "Believe it or not" Ripley
By: Neal Thompson
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781847947208
Subjects: Publishers and publishing; Cartoonists; Biography; Journalists
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.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: but who may have been the most amazing oddity of all.