TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simon,Linda
TI  - The greatest shows on earth: a history of the circus 
AV  - GV1801 .S56 2014
U1  - 791.309 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London, UK
PB  - Reaktion Books
KW  - Circus
KW  - History
KW  - Clowns
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Trick Riders -- Cirques Intimes -- The Biggest Tents -- Cavalcades -- Without a Net -- Beasts -- Clowns -- Feats -- Prodigies -- Transformations
N2  - 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 --
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ER  -