| Description |
1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Circus -- History.
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Clowns -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
History of the circus |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Simon, Linda. Greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus. London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2014 296 pages ; 23 cm 9781780233581 (OCoLC)ocn896372923 (DLC)18676613 |
| ISBN |
9781780233581 hardback |
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1780233582 hardback |
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9781780233987 (electronic bk.) |
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