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

Av:

Simon, Linda, 1946- [aut]

text

Medietyp:

unmediated

Bärartyp:

volume

ISBN:

9781780233581
1780233582

Ämne:

DDK-klassifikation:

791.309 23

LC-klassifikation:

GV1801

SAB-klassifikation:

Iköe

Innehåll:

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

Sammanfattning: 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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Holdings
Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Book	Musik- och teaterbiblioteket Magasin A				B30.727					Available			26201840842

Total holds: 0

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.

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