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Circus Age : Culture and Society Under the American Big Top
Janet M. Davis
Paperback - $51.95
A century ago, daily life ground to a halt when the circus rolled into town. Across America, banks closed, schools canceled classes, farmers left their fields, and factories shut down so that everyone could go to the show. In this entertaining and pr ...
Under the Big Top : A Season with the Circus
Bruce Feiler
Paperback - $21.95
The bestselling author of "Walking the Bible" renders "a stunning collective portrait of an ingrown community with its own history, hierarchy, and traditions" ("The New Yorker").
Carny Folk : The World's Weirdest Sideshow Acts
Francine Hornberger
Paperback - $24.95
Here spectators will see Atasha the Gorilla Girl, Combustible Kira, Lionel the Lion-Faced Man, Otis the Frog Boy, Serpentina the Snake Girl, and more than forty other legendary sideshow acts. From P.T. Barnum's albinos and "Siamese" twins, to the tra ...
Big Apple Circus 25th Anniversary Book
Dominique Jando
Paperback - $49.95
The Big Apple Circus is one of the world's most celebrated circuses. Hundreds of thousands of fans fill the seats of its one-ring tent every year; they can see and smell and almost touch the sawdust, the trained animals, and the daring and frequently ...
Extraordinary Exhibitions : The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians
Ricky Jay
Hardcover - $81.95
This is an informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying, and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century broadsides from Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection. It includes observations on the conven ...
Madness in the Making : The Triumphant Rise & Untimely Fall of America's Show Inventors
David Lindsay
Paperback - $51.95
"A fascinating history of the unexpected intersection of science, technology and show business." --John Steele Gordon, author of" Hamilton's Blessing" "Once upon a time, American know-how flourished through show-how: spectacular demonstrations by eve ...
The Soviet Circus : A Series of Articles
Alexander Lipovsky
Paperback - $54.95
This book is about Soviet Circus artists who have become popular in Britain, France, the U.S.A., Cuba, Japan, China, Belgium, Holland and many other countries. Oleg Popov, the " Sunny clown; " the trainers Vladimir and Yuri Durov; Valentina ...
Secrets of the Sideshows
Joe Nickell
Hardcover - $51.95
On small-town ballfields and county fairgrounds, the sideshow performers set up their tents and trailers in the shadow of the Ferris wheel. There they amazed us with daring feats such as fire eating and sword swallowing, intrigued us with exhibitions ...