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 Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever LivedBest Price: $7.70 I love this book. It starts a tiny bit slow, but is so engaging once you get into it. I gave... |  The Circus: 1870-1950Best Price: $126.00 THE CIRCUS 1870 - 1950. This is a behemoth of a coffee table book and is quite simply the last... |  Carny FolkBest Price: $8.18 The author had a great idea in taking a closer look at the personal stories of side show... |  CIRQUE DU SOLEILŪ THE SPARK: Igniting the Creative Fire That Lives Within Us AllBest Price: $5.69 Talk about inspiring. Open up this slim, easy to read little book, and the first 25 pages or so... |  Secrets of the Sideshows (None)Best Price: $12.79 Well, what I have recently purchased is a very interesting book. It unveils a rather dark and... |
 American SideshowBest Price: $7.87 This book is well written, full of information on the lives of these unfortunate people and... |  The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American TragedyBest Price: $7.94 Good books on historical events usually tell of events before, during and after the occurence. ... |  The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by HimselfBest Price: $10.71 Barnum is one of my "great american heroes." This is his life in his own words,... |  Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and ProfitBest Price: $14.47 I was afraid that this was going to be one of those hand-wringing tsk-tsk-tsk books with... |  The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big TopBest Price: $25.00 After a surprisingly interesting visit to the Ringling Museum in Sarasota I was anxious to know... |
 Peter Spier's Circus (A Picture Yearling Book)Best Price: $3.75 Although the illustrations are a little busy for my taste, the details guarantee that a child... |  Circus (Diaries)Best Price: $11.99 |  Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the CircusBest Price: $6.75 This is a terrific history of the strange people who are carnies and sideshow freaks. I love... |  Wild, Weird, and Wonderful: The American Circus 1901-1927 as seen by F. W. Glasier, PhotographerBest Price: $34.49 Simply wonderful photographs helping the mind to call up mental pictures of a colorful and... |  Cirque Du Soleil: 20 Years Under the Sun - An Authorized HistoryBest Price: $19.95 Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3DW03FUXABJHW Cirque Du Soleil: 20 Years Under... |
 Under the Big Top: A Season with the CircusBest Price: $7.34 I first discovered Bruce Feiler from reading his "Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of... |  Creative ClowningBest Price: $23.99 My absolute favorite clowning book! If you can only get one clowning book get this one! Covers... |  Dreams of the Solo Trapeze: Offstage with the Cirque du SoleilBest Price: $13.96 I think what makes this book so hard to put down is that it provides so much detail on a... |  The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader: NOTHING ELSE LIKE IT IN THE UNIVERSEBest Price: $12.84 Let me preface this review by saying that it will center entirely on the using the book in a... |  Freaks and Fire: The Underground Reinvention of CircusBest Price: $7.29 "Freaks & Fire" is misnamed. With one exception, the acts profiled by J. Dee Hill... |
 Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, The Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians (Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay)Best Price: $30.72 This book is a fascinating collection of antique advertisements for entertainment acts ranging... |  P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest ShowmanBest Price: $18.94 The publishers didn't pull a Barnum on the public with this one. They deliver what they promise... |  The Clown Ministry HandbookBest Price: $8.95 Arguably, The book on clown ministry. An excellent resource on gospel clowning (it's not... |  Strutter's Complete Guide to Clown MakeupBest Price: $21.94 I am trying to get ready to be a hospital clown. This book helped me understand that clowning... |  Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny KlineBest Price: $14.36 Tiny Kline spent her entire life doing stunts. From youth to middle age, she worked with the... |
 Jumbo: This Being the True Story of the Greatest Elephant in the WorldBest Price: $13.64 Jumbo was an African elephant born in the early 1860s and captured by ivory poachers who had... |  'O' Cirque du Soleil at BellagioBest Price: $20.40 I just saw the water-themed "O" by Cirque du Soleil at the Bellagio in Las Vegas mere... |  Fool of the Kingdom: How to Be an Effective Clown MinisterBest Price: $6.70 this is the best book i have read in a long time. even if you don't want to be a clown it is... |  Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural ImaginationBest Price: $12.16 Recently I've read through a few books on sideshows and freaks (sort of side resarch for my next... |  Clown Act Omnibus: Everything You Need to Know About Clowning Plus over 200 Clown StuntsBest Price: $7.46 The front page of the book is exellent. It makes you believe that you have the right book in... |
 Life in a Three-Ring Circus: Posters and InterviewsBest Price: $7.95 Life in a Three-Ring Circus is a colorful and captivating volume highlighting IndianaÍs... |  Snake Oil: Life's Calculations, Misdirections, And ManipulationsBest Price: $8.23 Jim Rose, a man unique in so many ways, has a riveting book here. I highly recommend it. I... |  Humbug: The Art of P. T. BarnumBest Price: $21.00 This book gives a great overview of the life and times of P.T. Barnum. It doesn't go too... |  Fall of the Big Top: The Vanishing American CircusBest Price: $39.96 Once an eagerly awaited spectacle, the traveling circus--that miracle of red wagons, trumpeting... |  Eyeing the Flash: The Making of a Carnival Con ArtistBest Price: $0.99 I loved this book. I laughed out loud quite often at the situations and shenanigans those two... |
 Varekai: Cirque du SoleilBest Price: $2.00 This is a beautiful book, full of pictures and less words: just the way I wanted it! This book... |  P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the ManBest Price: $8.99 "I believe hugely in advertising and blowing my own trumpet, beating the gongs, drums, to... |  Freak Like Me (Real, Raw & Dangerous): Inside the Jim Rose Circus SideshowBest Price: $19.99 Jim Rose is a great showmen. The Circus has been around for many years. I own 2 of his books.... |  Le Reve: A Small Collection of Imperfect DreamsBest Price: $27.92 I saw "Le Reve" in Vegas shortly after it opened and consider it a master work. Truly... |  Step Right This Way: The Photographs of Edward J. KeltyBest Price: $137.85 For the Circus lovers, this will make such a great gift! The book is out-of-print and whoever... |
 America's Great Circus Parade: Its Roots, Its Revival, Its RevelryBest Price: $17.50 |  Ringlingville USA: The Stupendous Story of Seven Siblings and Their Stunning Circus SuccessBest Price: $18.54 Besides teaching the history of popular entertainment at the University of Wisconsin, I'm a... |  Two Hundred Years of the American Circus: From Aba-Daba to the Zoppe-Zavatta TroupeBest Price: $30.00 200 YEARS OF THE AMERICAN CIRCUSREVIEWSA Best Reference Work 1994 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONA... |  ClownBest Price: $26.35 |  The Big Tent: The Traveling Circus in Georgia, 1820-1930Best Price: $27.96 For many people, the circus, with its clowns, exotic beasts, and other colorful iconography, is... |
 Learning to FlyBest Price: $1.48 If you are more influenced by books that show rather than by books that tell, add this one to... |  Images from the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-Century American ArtBest Price: $11.79 Images from the World Between is an engaging survey of circus imagery in twentieth-century... |  Memoirs of a Sword SwallowerBest Price: $12.79 (Published originally as _STEP RIGHT UP!_)Since my childhood, when Mother read passages to us,... |  Unlikely Legacy, the Story of John Ringling, the Circus and Sarasota. |  ModocBest Price: $12.93 I was thrilled to find that the story of Modac has been written as a children's picture book. I... |
 The Faces of Televisual Media: Teaching, Violence, Selling To Children (Lea's Communication Series)Best Price: $40.47 Volume focuses on the effects of television on preschool children & adolescents. For... |  The Last of the WallendasBest Price: $59.95 I like biographies, and this is one wonderful one. What an incredible insight into the family... |  The Contemporary Circus: Art of the SpectacularBest Price: $47.79 Creating the Contemporary Circus is an examination and analysis of the creative process whereby... |  The Circus in AmericaBest Price: $34.49 With this book in your hands, you can almost hear the thunder of the horses and the roar of the... |  Mud show: A circus season |
 Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard OfBest Price: $4.25 This is a quality biography (academically), well researched and reliable, but also enjoyable to... |  James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed: On & Off the MidwayBest Price: $16.44 You wouldn't know it on the East Coast due to all the rain, but summer is upon us. School's... |  A Matter of Degree: The Hartford Circus Fire & The Mystery of Little Miss 1565Best Price: $18.30 I finished reading "Circus Fire" By Stewart O'Nan and I decided to read "A Matter... | ||
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