| Rhina Kirk - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1972 - 94 pages
Brief profiles of famous circus personalities such as P. T. Barnum, Tom Thumb, Clyde Beatty, and Annie Oakley plus a short history of the origins of the circus. | |
| Stephanie Owen Reeder - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2018 - 138 pages
In 1901, aged just seven, tiny contortionist May Zinga was given away to Wirth Brothers Circus by her desperate mother. Imagine Miss May's horror when the first thing the ... | |
| Henry Ringling North - Circus performers - 1960 - 408 pages
The story of an American family who achieved the peak of the entertainment world by imagination, daring, and gambling enterprise. | |
| Steve Ward - Performing Arts - 2014 - 373 pages
“A valuable and illuminating read, shedding a lot of light on the political, economic and technological factors that have driven circus evolution” (The Circus Diaries). Beneath ... | |
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