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

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 reinv...

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Main Author:	Simon, Linda, 1946- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Reaktion Books, 2014.
Subjects:	Circus > History. Clowns > History.