Dumb Hope: My Curious Life

By Bill H Ritchie

The events from 1981, leading up to a trip around the world in 1983 and reasons why the author did it and how he and his family managed this memorable feat. Following his failure to convince the local university to join in global thinking, seven more years brings the author to the payoff in his life-game: printmaking on the Internet. The names of over 300 people who touched the author's and his family's lives and led to their successes (and some who set obstacles to be overcome) are included in the acknowledgment at the front of the book. The 1983 section of the book describes visiting fifteen countries abroad, including Australia, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Egypt, Germany, Yugoslavia, Italy, Spain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Scotland and many USA states. Screenshots from the videos, transferred from vintage VHS recordings are reproduced in this book (in color in the Kindle version, black-and-white in the paperback). Scores of other color images show selections of artworks and memorabilia from Ritchie's Seattle workshop and gallery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1790344883
• ISBN13: 9781790344888
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"