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Author : Will Davis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408823047
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book The Trapeze Artist written by Will Davis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exceptional, break-out, coming-of-age novel from the talented Betty Trask Award-winning writer, Will Davis
Author : Dean N. Jensen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307986586
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Queen of the Air written by Dean N. Jensen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona, of the famous Flying Codona Brothers. Like today's Beyonce, Madonna, and Cher, she was known to her vast public by just one name, Leitzel. There may have been some regions on earth where her name was not a household expression, but if so, they were likely on polar ice caps or in the darkest, deepest jungles. Leitzel was born into Dickensian circumstances, and became a princess and then a queen. She was not much bigger than a good size fairy, just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds. In the first part of the 20th century, she presided over a sawdust fiefdom of never-ending magic. She was the biggest star ever of the biggest circus ever, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greatest Show on Earth. In her life, Leitzel had many suitors (and three husbands), but only one man ever fully captured her heart. He was the handsome Alfredo Codona, the greatest trapeze flyer that had ever lived, the only one in his time who, night after night, executed the deadliest of all big-top feats, The Triple--three somersaults in midair while traveling at 60 m.p.h. The Triple, the salto mortale, as the Italians called it, took the lives of more daredevils than any other circus stunt.
Author : Alastair Pilgrim
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781479329793
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (297 download)
Download or read book The Fundamentals of Flying Trapeze written by Alastair Pilgrim and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founder of flying-trapeze.com, this book illustrates the fundamental principles, techniques and equipment of Flying Trapeze. With hundreds of clear and simple diagrams illustrating tricks gathered from trapeze schools around the world, this is an invaluable reference guide for the recreational trapeze artist.
Author : Will Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620400022
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Trapeze Artist written by Will Davis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man will endlessly torture his muscles until they shriek and complain. But he will not give in. He will take a hammer to his ceiling until the neighbors begin to watch from the window and the journalists knock at the door. He will continue to train and hack away at the house until it is finished and the trapeze is in place. Although his parents thought he was nice and kindhearted and teachers saw him as a good boy, secretly he hated his drab, ordered world and longed for more. Then, when he was fourteen, Edward arrived at his school. Edward exuded the coolness of a latter-day Oscar Wilde. Edward listened to Patti Smith, watched Fassbinder films, knew the writings of Gore Vidal, and, one evening, would kiss him in the moonlight. Forty years old and fleeing from a life he can no longer handle, he stumbles upon the circus. Not knowing why, only that he must, he gets in his car and follows after it, refusing to listen to the doubts that plague him, determined to build a new home and family. The Trapeze Artist draws together the past, present, and future of one life to create a work of startling dexterity and vision-a haunting and heartbreaking account of a child, a boy, a man, desperate to free himself from the suffocating weight of his desires, his family, and his grief. It speaks of what it is to grow up gay in a straight world, to be unable to communicate with those you love, of the sweat, passions, and tempers of circus life, and, above all, of the joyous longing to break free, and to swing higher and higher...
Author : Molly McCord
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989604512
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Art of Trapeze written by Molly McCord and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a random Thursday morning, with nothing to lose and only a dream to gain, Molly McCord decides to move to Paris, France to follow the courageous call of her heart. She arrives in a city she has never visited before and where she knows no one, yet she trusts her ability to figure it out because her adventurous life has prepared her for this biggest of leaps. She carries the wisdom of Solitude, Strength, Style, Flexibility, Heart, Endurance, and Grace in her non-matching luggage collection. Molly's soul-riveting experiences unfold in surprising ways as she discovers the joys and realities of life as a foreigner in France, falls in love with a sexy Turkish man, moves her cats across the Atlantic, enjoys the rare opportunity of working for a U.S. Ambassador, and creates the life of her dreams in less than two years. Yet when unexpected developments require her to surrender once again, a higher consciousness catches her with a deeper spiritual awakening. The Art of Trapeze soars with emotional honesty, delightful humor, unexpected wisdom, and inspiring spiritual perspectives around living life to the fullest when nothing is guaranteed except gravity. Reached #1 on Amazon in Spiritual Self-Help and Memoirs: Adventurers! This is Book One in The Awakening Consciousness Series. Book Two is "The Modern Heroine's Journey of Consciousness.""
Author : Micol Ostow
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0553497421
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Louise Trapeze Is Totally 100% Fearless written by Micol Ostow and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Six-year-old Louise Trapeze lives at the circus and can't wait to fly on the trapeze until she discovers that she is afraid of heights"--
Author : Leslie Awender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book The Trapeze Artist written by Leslie Awender and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gail Blanke
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 9781579549282
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Between Trapezes written by Gail Blanke and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how uncertainty can become a catalyst for reinventing one's life, offering a guide that demonstrates how to let go without a safety net and overcome life's transitions to seek new fulfillment, success, and accomplishment.
Author : Leigh Ansell
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241436575
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Trapeze written by Leigh Ansell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-09-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **How do you trust the ground when all you've known is flight?** Seventeen-year-old Corey Ryder can't remember a time when she wasn't gliding through the air of Cirque Mystique's big top on a trapeze. When tragedy strikes and Corey narrowly escapes from the burning circus tent she once called home, her life is forced to a sudden stand-still. Now back in high school and trying to fit into small town California, Corey faces living life with two feet firmly on the ground. When her friendship with local golden boy Luke Everett starts to grow into something more, Corey must learn to perform the high-wire act of being true to who you really are. The Greatest Showman meets Gilmore Girls in this romantic, bittersweet and beautiful YA coming of age novel.
Author : Laura Putre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Trapeze Artist written by Laura Putre and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Libby Angel
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925355926
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)
Download or read book The Trapeze Act written by Libby Angel and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loretta’s mother was a trapeze artist in Europe, the star of the famed Rodzirkus circus, before she walked out on her drunken husband and his debts while on tour in Australia. But a life in 1960s suburban Adelaide was always going to be difficult, even if she does land herself the most handsome young barrister of the town, and Leda’s behaviour raises more than a few eyebrows. Leda’s father, handsome barrister Gilbert Lord, has no interest in his past, but hidden in a wardrobe are the journals of his ivory merchant great-great-grandfather who led an expedition to Australia’s desert interior to search for elephants. For Loretta, growing up in her mother’s flamboyant and often outrageous shadow, life is stifling and at times brutal. But the harder she tries to separate herself from her mother, the more she longs for her attention and love—and the more she finds that the past is inextricably woven into her own life and who she is. The Trapeze Act weaves stories of the circus and the doomed ivory expedition through a novel that is at once a heartbreaking tale of the search for acceptance and a celebration of the lustre and magic of life.
Author : Paula S Blackwelder
Publisher : Paulablackwelder.com LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780578151298
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (512 download)
Download or read book From Gazoonie to Greatness written by Paula S Blackwelder and published by Paulablackwelder.com LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Gazoonie to Greatness is a Self-Help guide to dramatic milestone accomplishments. Inspired by the true story of legendary trapeze artist and world record holder, Tony Steele, readers will find his lessons in success, both extraordinary and entertaining. With questions for personal reflection at the end of each chapter, readers stay involved in the creation of their own blue-prints to their dreams. This book will teach you how to live life without regrets, using your mind, matter and motivation, to live fearlessly and shock them all. Steele did that, and has no regrets that he did. Now, he shares this technique with you.
Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063113546
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)
Download or read book Flying, Falling, Catching written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Nouwen’s never-before-published story of his surprising friendship with a traveling trapeze troupe. During the last five years of his life, best-selling spiritual author Henri J. M. Nouwen became close to The Flying Rodleighs, a trapeze troupe in a traveling circus. Like Nouwen’s own life, a trapeze act is full of artistry, exhilarating successes, crushing failures and continual forgiveness. He wrote about his experience in a genre new to him: creative non-fiction. In Flying, Falling, Catching, Nouwen's colleague and friend Carolyn Whitney-Brown presents his unpublished trapeze writings framed by the true story of his rescue through a hotel window by paramedics during his first heart attack. Readers will meet Nouwen as a spiritual risk taker who was transformed through his engagement with these trapeze artists, as well as his participation in the Civil Rights movement, his life in community with people with intellectual disabilities, his personal growth through friendships during the 1990s AIDS pandemic, and other unexpected encounters. What will we do with our lives, and with whom will we do it? In this story of flying and catching, Nouwen invites us all to let go and fly, even when we are afraid of falling.
Author : Douglas McPherson
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720613868
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Circus Mania! written by Douglas McPherson and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the circus from its origins in the Roman times, through its establishment in Western Europe, and to the modern day circus—absolutely diverse and captivating Circuses have existed since Roman times, but centuries later, the circus world has never been more diverse and captivating, the global success of Cirque du Soleil testament to its enduring and universal appeal. Traditional family circuses for kids, arty cirque-style shows for adults, circuses in tents or in theaters, circuses with animals or without, cabaret-style hybrids on the burlesque circuit—this is an expert guide to their extraordinary history and culture. The circus requires a unique type of performer, people who blend the discipline of sports stars with the razzmatazz of showbiz; itinerant but clannish entertainers who have often had circus blood in their families for generations; world class gymnasts who risk death twice daily and help take down the big top afterwards. This history offers a journey into this unique world, each chapter an access-all-areas pass to a different circus, talking to the trapeze flyers, clowns, animal trainers, and showmen about their lives, work, families, customs, and traditions.
Author : Simon Louvish
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393318401
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Man on the Flying Trapeze written by Simon Louvish and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louvish brilliantly sifts through evidence of W.C. Fields' own self-creation to illuminate the vaudeville world from which he rose to become the beloved cinematic curmudgeon and comic genius of his time. Photos.
Author : Jean Sietzema-Dickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958545860
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Trapeze Artist written by Jean Sietzema-Dickson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: poetry
Author : Alastair Pilgrim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781519798589
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Discovering Flying Trapeze written by Alastair Pilgrim and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying Trapeze has exploded in popularity as a recreational activity in recent years with over 200 schools, clubs and resorts now open on six continents. Whether you are a complete beginner or a regular flyer, this book will accompany you from your very first swing, through a series of skill progressions (including over 50 different tricks and catches), right up to advanced somersaulting tricks and flying out-of-lines. The book is illustrated with hundreds of clear and simple step-by-step diagrams explaining basic concepts, fundamental techniques, useful training tips and common problems. You'll learn everything you need to know as you arrive for your class, right from learning your trick on the practice bar, to climbing the ladder, leaving the board and making a catch. You'll also discover the roles of the instructors you will meet and learn how to use the safety equipment such as the safety net and the safety lines. The book also covers a variety of topics that will become relevant as you start to practice more regularly and at a more advanced level, such as helping out on the platform, performing in Flying Trapeze shows, using hand grips and understanding catch timings. Written by Alastair Pilgrim, the founder of flying-trapeze.com, and including contributions fromTim Cayrol, an experienced performing-arts physiotherapist, this book is an invaluable tool for the recreational trapeze artist. This book is most suitable for beginner and intermediate level flying trapeze enthusiasts. For a more advanced book, check out 'The Fundamentals of Flying Trapeze'.
