The greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus / / Linda Simon
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| Autore: |
Simon Linda <1946->
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| Titolo: |
The greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus / / Linda Simon
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| Pubblicazione: | London, UK : , : Reaktion Books, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (298 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.309 |
| Soggetto topico: | Circus - History |
| Clowns - History | |
| Classificazione: | 791.309 SIM |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Trick Riders -- Cirques Intimes -- The Biggest Tents -- Cavalcades -- Without a Net -- Beasts -- Clowns -- Feats -- Prodigies -- Transformations. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 -- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The greatest shows on earth |
| ISBN: | 1-78023-398-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910810853803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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