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1000 Clowns
by Thomas H Steele  Publisher Comments The clown imagery gathered here ranges from beautiful to touching to funny to just plain disturbing. Find all kinds of clowns, from the most famous to the most obscure, in photographs, film and television, paintings, and graphics. The insightful text...
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The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: Nothing Else Like It in the Universe
by Phineas T Barnum Publisher Comments An encyclopedic treasure trove from the mastermind behind "The Greatest Show on Earth"...
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Freaks and Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus
by J Dee Hill Publisher Comments Beyond the historical confines of Ringling Bros. and the über-kitsch of Cirque du Soleil, tightly knit alternative circus troupes like Yard Dogs Road Show, Flam Chen, Circus Contraption, and other over-the-top groups bring thrill-starved audiences...
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American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
by Marc Hartzman Publisher Comments A fascinating look into the history of the American sideshow and its performers. Learn what's real, what's fake, and what's just downright bizarre. You've probably heard of Tom Thumb. The Elephant Man. Perhaps even Chang and Eng, the original Siamese...
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Varekai: Cirque Du Soleil
by Veronique Vial Synopsis This volume depicts the world of "Varekai", a production of the entertainment company Cirque de Soleil. "Varekai" pays tribute to a universe of infinite possibilities through an explosive fusion of drama and acrobatics, which is captured here in the...
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Circus Queen & Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline
by Janet Davis Publisher Comments A glimpse of day-to-day life under the big top, from one of the circus's most remarkable...
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Carny Folk: The World's Weirdest Sideshow Acts
by Francine Hornberger Publisher Comments 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...
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The Pickle Clowns: New American Circus Comedy
by Joel Schechter Publisher Comments The Pickle Family Circus began in 1975 in San Francisco as a clown-centered, cooperative one-ring circus, far more intimate than circuses heralding themselves as "the greatest show on earth." Clowning comics in the spirit of Buster Keaton, Charlie...
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Be a Clown
by Mark Stolzenberg Publisher Comments Make them laugh! If you like to clown around, then it's time to get serious about your talent....
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Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
by Robert Bogdan Publisher Comments From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other...
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Eyeing the Flash: The Education of a Carnival Con Artist
by Peter Fenton Publisher Comments The year is 1963, the setting is small-town Michigan. At age fifteen, Peter Fenton is a gawky math whiz schoolboy with a dissatisfied mother, a father who drinks himself to foolishness, and no chance whatsoever with girls. That's when he meets Jackie...
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Step Right Up (04 Edition)
by Knaebel Publisher Comments A collection of the finest literature and the most absorbing testimonials and first-person accounts captures all of the spectacle and sensation of carnivals, sideshows and circuses....
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Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians.
by Ricky Jay Publisher Comments This is an informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century broadsides from the Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection. It includes observations on the...
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A Lesson from Aloes
by Athol Fugard About the Author The New Yorker has said of Athol Fugard, "A rare playwright, who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize." His major works for the stage include: Blood Knot; "Master Harold"...and the boys; My...
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Secrets of the Sideshows
by Joe Nickell Publisher Comments 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 of...
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American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
by Marc Hartzman Publisher Comments A fascinating look into the history of the American sideshow and its performers. Learn what's real, what's fake, and what's just downright bizarre. You've probably heard of Tom Thumb. The Elephant Man. Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins. But what...
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The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
by Robert Hough Publisher Comments Mabel Stark was the greatest female tiger trainer in history. This is Hough's brilliant, highly acclaimed novelization of her fantastic life. Starting with her escape from a mental institution to begin her circus career as a burlesque dancer, Mabel's...
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Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top
by Janet M. Davis Publisher Comments Davis examines the history and cultural significance of circuses and Wild West shows in turn-of-the-century America....
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Ringling: The Florida Years, 1911-1936
by David Chapin Weeks Publisher Comments This book is a careful crafted analysis of both the public and the private life of one of American history's most colorful and influential culture brokers......
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Julia Pastrana: The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman
by Christopher Gylseth Publisher Comments In a dusty corner of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Norway lie the remains of Julia Pastrana, half hidden in a black plastic sack, all but forgotten. Yet in the middle of the 19th century, this "ape woman" was renowned, visited by scientists of...
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