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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 re...

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Main Author:	Simon, Linda, 1946- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2014.
Subjects:	Circus > History. Clowns > History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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