Ripley's Believe it or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre

by JulieMooney (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.44

  All 6,000 oddities and 1,400 eye-popping illustrations from Black Dog's original Encyclopedia of the Bizarre are packed into one stout, chunky paperback - believe it or not! Black Dog & Leventhal's bestselling Encyclopedia of the Bizarre is now available in a handior, more reasonably priced edition that retains every word and image of the original. From stupefying stunts to wacky world's records, all of Ripley's rivoting findings are here, in an easy-to-browse, impossible-to-put-down color volume. Where else could you learn that: It's estimated that 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 snowflakes have fallen to the Earth since the Earth was formed! Queen Isabeau of Bavarla used a mixture of boar's brains, crocodile glands, and wolf blood as skin lotion! Anna Bread married John Butter in Leeds, England, April 22, 1926! Phil Turco of Madison, Wisconsin, swallowed 339 goldfish in two hours! Bizarre and amazing catogories include Accidents and Disasters, Animals and Insects. Archaeology, Feats and Stunts, Prophecies, Records, the Unexplained, and more. It's fascinating fun for the whole family.

• Used

  Hardcover
  2006

  $3.44

  This is a collection of coincidences and oddities of every subject from animals, human anatomy and laws to science, sports and weather. Ripley's Believe It or Not! will blow your mind. It's the biggest, weirdest and most outrageously strange collection of feats, stories, facts and records - all real and all recorded by the editors of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Use this book to expand your own boundaries, to stretch the realm of what's possible. Use it to enrich your knowledge of your favourite subjects - to salt them with a tang of the bizarre. You can also use this book as a creative resource, as a jumping-off point for the imagination. Writers, artists, musicians, teachers, scientists, creators, and explorers of all types will find inspiration within these pages.