Books Details
Author : Ripley Entertainment Inc. Pages : 160 pages Publisher : Black Dog &Leventhal
Language : ISBN-10 : 1579120881 ISBN-13 : 9781579120887
Books Descriptions
It's shocking but irresistible. The fantastic and amazing World of Ripley's Believe It or
Not(R) uncovers and relates curiosities from around the globe. Its full-color, oversized
format and round trim make it a suitably remarkable package to display the bizarre
findings of Robert Ripley, who traveled to 198 countries to research his famous
newspaper cartoon strip. Starting with his first drawing in 1918 and the first Ripley
museum in the 1930s, this book is filled with examples of human oddities, exotic
artifacts, strange happenings, unusual inventions, marvels of nature, extraordinary
achievements and coincidences. Readers will be amazed by the truly macabre world
that Ripley captured. Hundreds of photographs show the real people and things that
inspired the famous drawings. Exotic objects and human feats stretch the limits of
the mind, body and imagination. Here readers will meet world champion chicken
picker Buck Fulford who could catch, kill, cook and eat a chicken in less than
