The greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus / Linda Simon.

By: Simon, Linda, 1946- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2014Description: 1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781780233987Other title: History of the circusSubject(s): Circus -- History | Clowns -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus.DDC classification: 791.309 LOC classification: GV1801 | .S56 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Trick Riders -- Cirques Intimes -- The Biggest Tents -- Cavalcades -- Without a Net -- Beasts -- Clowns -- Feats -- Prodigies -- Transformations.
Summary: Step right up! and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earth - the Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable and the impossible--a place of myth and romance, of reinvention, rebirth, second acts, and new identities. Asking why we long to soar on flying trapezes, ride bareback on spangled horses, and parade through the streets in costumes of glitter and gold, this captivating book illuminates the history of the circus and the claim it has on the imaginations of artists, writers, and people around the world -- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Trick Riders -- Cirques Intimes -- The Biggest Tents -- Cavalcades -- Without a Net -- Beasts -- Clowns -- Feats -- Prodigies -- Transformations.

Step right up! and buy a ticket to the Greatest Show on Earth - the Big Top, containing death-defying stunts, dancing bears, roaring tigers, and trumpeting elephants. The circus has always been home to the dazzling and the exotic, the improbable and the impossible--a place of myth and romance, of reinvention, rebirth, second acts, and new identities. Asking why we long to soar on flying trapezes, ride bareback on spangled horses, and parade through the streets in costumes of glitter and gold, this captivating book illuminates the history of the circus and the claim it has on the imaginations of artists, writers, and people around the world -- Source other than Library of Congress.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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