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En Route to the Great Eastern Circus and Other Essays on Circus History
William L. Slout
出版Wildside Press LLC, 2016-04-13
主題Performing Arts / Circus
ISBN14344376049781434437600
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ra70AAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋William L. Slout, entertainment historian par excellence, here provides five fascinating essays on the development of the American traveling circus in the post-Civil War era: "En Route to the Great Eastern Circus" (on the creation of this great show); "The Great Eastern Circus of 1872" (more details about one of P. T. Barnum's rivals); "The Not-So-Great Trans-Atlantic Circus and Menagerie" (how a show failed suddenly in a yellow fever epidemic); "What Goes Up...Comes Down" (how balloning became part of the circus environment); and "The Chicken or the Egg?" (on the first development of the double-ring act pioneered by Barnum and others). These vivid essays, highlighted by numerous contemporaneous excerpts from local newspapers, help bring a long-forgotten era alive again.