A Curious Man by Neal Thompson

A Curious Man by Neal Thompson

Bucktoothed and hampered by shyness, Robert Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation of the weird and wonderful. Ripley delighted in making preposterous declarations that somehow turned out to be true - such as that Charles Lindburgh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic.

Robert Ripley's life is just as weird and riveting as a two-headed snake or an 8,000 rubber band ballAnd Neal Thompson has told the story brilliantly in this book. What's truly unbelievable is that it's taken us so long to get a full-fledged biography of this great American character, a man who tapped into our fascination with bizarre non-fiction and who can rightly claim to be the godfather of Reality TV. It was worth the wait. -- A.J. Jacobs (bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically) * New York Times *
A biography of a man who was as unusual as the items he collected…An outstanding work…I couldn't pull myself away. -- Frank Brady (bestselling author of Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall – from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness)

Neal Thompson is the critically acclaimed author of Light This Dandle, Driving with the Devil and Hurricane Season, and has contributed to such publications as Outside, Esquire and Sports Illustrated. He lives in Seattle with his wife and their two sons.

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ISBN 13	9781847947208
ISBN 10	1847947204
Title	A Curious Man
Author	Neal Thompson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cornerstone
Year published	2013-06-06
Number of pages	432
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.