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Author : Amos Markham Kellogg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Van Amburgh's Menagerie written by Amos Markham Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Brief Biographical Sketch of I.A. Van Amburgh written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : O. J. Ferguson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (833 download)
Download or read book A Brief Biographical Sketch of I.A. Van Amburgh, and an Illustrated and Descriptive History of the Animals Contained in His Menagerie written by O. J. Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1861* with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madeline LESLIE (Mrs. pseud. [i.e. Harriette Newell Baker.])
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Georgey's Menagerie written by Madeline LESLIE (Mrs. pseud. [i.e. Harriette Newell Baker.]) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Bowen
Publisher : novum pro Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3991077094
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From Triumph to Tragedy written by Jane Bowen and published by novum pro Verlag. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pegasus, a pioneering ship whose voyages helped promote Victorian enterprise, carried people and cargo between Leith and Hull. Goods included oil for the chemical industry, mail coaches, menageries, and racehorses. She was involved in daring sea rescues, smuggling, and several accidents. Her wreck, off Holy Island, in 1843, was the worst merchant shipping disaster in British waters, with some 70 lives lost. It was also a mystery. Why had she struck a rock on a calm, clear night? A parliamentary inquiry followed. Two of the first deep sea divers worked on recovering the dead and salvaging the wreck. Help for the victims and their families came from many sources, including the author, Charles Dickens. The stories of those lost form the appendix to this fascinating book.
Author : Orin Copple King
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781465329165
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Only Big Show Coming written by Orin Copple King and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-06-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only Big Show Coming is an amended and greatly enlarged version of articles published in Bandwagon: The Journal of the Circus Historical Society between 1982 and 1999. Volume I covers the routes, reviews and incidents surrounding circus and wild west performances in Kansas between 1853 and 1878, and provides an intriguing view of life in the Victorian west.
Author : Gil Robinson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Old Wagon Show Days written by Gil Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peta Tait
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743324308
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (433 download)
Download or read book Fighting Nature written by Peta Tait and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 19th century animals were integrated into staged scenarios of confrontation, ranging from lion acts in small cages to large-scale re-enactments of war. Initially presenting a handful of exotic animals, travelling menageries grew to contain multiple species in their thousands. These 19th-century menageries entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit nature through war-like practices against other animal species. Animal shows became a stimulus for antisocial behaviour as locals taunted animals, caused fights, and even turned into violent mobs. Human societal problems were difficult to separate from issues of cruelty to animals. Apart from reflecting human capacity for fighting and aggression, and the belief in human dominance over nature, these animal performances also echoed cultural fascination with conflict, war and colonial expansion, as the grand spectacles of imperial power reinforced state authority and enhanced public displays of nationhood and nationalistic evocations of colonial empires. Fighting nature is an insightful analysis of the historical legacy of 19th-century colonialism, war, animal acquisition and transportation. This legacy of entrenched beliefs about the human right to exploit other animal species is yet to be defeated. "Peta Tait brings to the book an impressive scholarly command of the documentary material, from which she draws a range of vivid examples and revealing analyses of human–animal confrontation in popular entertainments ... The book is written with verve and clarity, and will be of interest to a wide readership in performance studies and cultural history." Professor Jane R. Goodall, Western Sydney University Peta Tait FAHA is Professor of Theatre and Drama at La Trobe University and Visiting Professor at the University of Wollongong, and author of Wild and dangerous performances: animals, emotions, circus (2012).
Author : Richard F. Selcer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438107978
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Civil War America, 1850 To 1875 written by Richard F. Selcer and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features essays, statistical data, period photographs, maps, and documents.
Author : S.L. Kotar
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786487003
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899 written by S.L. Kotar and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To both young and old, the circus remains an icon of American entertainment, a wholesome pastime untouched by the passing years. But the modern circus, with its three rings, ringmaster, animals, and acrobats, is the product of nearly three hundred years of evolution. This intriguing work chronicles the history of the American circus from its roots in England through its importation to America to the end of the nineteenth century. It introduces the early pioneers of the circus, addresses business concerns such as management and training, and discusses the development of the show itself, including the incorporation of menageries, the need for animal training and care, the addition of circus music, the use of the tent, and the unique attractions of side shows and "freaks." Personal stories of those who made their lives under the "big top" are woven throughout the narrative, adding an intimate perspective to one of America's most enduring entertainments.
Author : Jo Pitkin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625840810
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Cradle of the American Circus written by Jo Pitkin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americas circusa spectacle of flying trapeze artists, colorful clowns and trained animal acts under the big topgrew out of the traveling menagerie phenomenon in Somers, New York, in the 1800s. To commemorate this proud local heritage, award-winning poet and Somers native Jo Pitkin presents a collection of poems inspired by the people, events and fantastic ephemera of the glory days of the Somers showmen. Complementing her dazzling lines are essays by regional historians that explain Somerss unique role as the Cradle of the American Circus. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, step up, step up! The show is about to begin.
Author : Jacob Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520270886
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Thrill Makers written by Jacob Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Starring human flies, daredevil aviators, bridge jumpers, and lion tamers, The Thrill Makers is a great read, as evocative as it is theoretically savvy, and convincingly argued. Culling telling details from a host of long-overlooked sources, Jacob Smith’s account of sensational, high-risk public performance from the Victorian age to the 1930s unearths and illuminates the interwoven histories of public spectacle, masculinity, the motion picture industry, new forms of celebrity, and the expanding American metropolis.”—Greg Waller, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University. “The Thrill Makers is an historical tour-de-force that illuminates the origins of risk-taking performance in American entertainment, and shows how its practitioners were gradually marginalized as invisible stunt doubles during the rise of the motion picture industry. Smith’s analysis of the lion tamer, the human fly, and the airplane wing-walker—as well as the many others who thrilled audiences before and during the advent of cinema—inspires us to reconsider the nature of media spectacle, masculinity, performance, celebrity, and labor at the turn of the last century. Impeccably researched, this book is a captivating read that re-frames the emergence of cinema in the context of its relationship to other forms of modern entertainment.”—Barbara Klinger, author of Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home.
Author : Dutchess County Historical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society written by Dutchess County Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 851 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Struggles and Triumphs written by P. T. Barnum and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2018-11-13T22:48:05Z with total page 851 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Struggles and Triumphs is the autobiography of P. T. Barnum, the celebrated American showman. Though subtitled Forty Years’ Recollections, it covers a period of over 60 years, from his birth in 1810, to the later years of his career in the 1870s. Barnum has an engaging style, and his autobiography is crammed with many amusing and interesting incidents as he tells how he learned to make money entertaining the public through circuses, “freak shows,” theatrical presentations, concert tours and the like. On the way he builds up an impressive fortune, only to lose it all through a fraudulous speculation perpetrated on him. Then he starts again, pays off his debts and builds up another, greater fortune. Though often labelled as a “humbug” or “a mere charlatan” it’s clear that the majority of his contemporary Americans held him in affectionate regard. However modern readers may be upset by Barnum’s rather cavalier treatment of the animals under his care in the various menageries and aquariums he created, and be distressed by the details of how they were lost in the several fires which destroyed Barnum’s Museums. Also of great interest are Barnum’s philanthropic endeavours: lecturing on teetotalism; supporting negro equality; and funding civic developments. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Life of P. T. Barnum written by Phineas Taylor Barnum and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P.T Barnum
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752400528
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Struggles and Triumphs of P.T Barnum written by P.T Barnum and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Struggles and Triumphs of P.T Barnum by P.T Barnum
Author : P. T. Barnum
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum written by P. T. Barnum and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Struggles and Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum" by P. T. Barnum. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
