Presents Ripley's account of his world travels in search of oddities throughout the 1930's, in a diary accompanied by drawings, cartoons, photographs, flaps, booklets, and pop-ups.

"This fascinating facsimile diary offers a first-hand account of Robert Ripley's travels to far-flung exotic corners of the globe in search of the weird and the wonderful during the 1930s. Inside, Ripley's own drawings, cartoons, and memorabilia evoke the strange and bizarre world that unfolded before his eyes ..."--P. [4] of cover.