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Circus : : the Australian story
- Title
- Circus : : the Australian story / Mark St Leon.
- Author
- St Leon, Mark, 1952-
- Publication
- Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2011.
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- Description
- x, 273 p. : col. ill., facsims., ports.; 28 cm.
- Summary
- In Circus : the Australian story, author Mark St Leon presents a comprehensive, entertaining and visually stunning history of circus in Australia. His interest was sparked by his insatiable curiosity about his own family's celebrated past in Australian circus. You will read how a colonial circus industry developed out of its Old World roots; how the saga of circus is woven into the historical fabric of modern Australia; how circus in Australia absorbed influences from as far afield as America, Japan and Europe; how Australia has been visited by some of the world's major circus companies; and how Australia's circus people have coped with unrelenting social, cultural, technological and economic change.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- MWF 11-8079
- ISBN
- 9781877096501 (hbk)
- 1877096504 (hbk)
- OCLC
- 727922041
- Author
- St Leon, Mark, 1952-
- Title
- Circus : : the Australian story / Mark St Leon.
- Imprint
- Melbourne : Melbourne Books, 2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- MWF 11-8079