The greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus / Linda Simon.
Simon, Linda, 1946- author.
2014
GV1801 .S56 2014 (Mapit)
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Title The greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus / Linda Simon.
Author Simon, Linda, 1946- author.
ISBN 9781780233581 hardcover
1780233582 hardcover
Published London : Reaktion Books, 2014.
Language English
Description 296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Call Number GV1801 .S56 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.309
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-286) and index.
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