Circus: The Australian Story by Mark St Leon

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and protective plastic covering. Stamps on inside. Partial date due slip now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Wear to book corners and edges. Body text and binding are still very good.

From the 1830s, Australians were kept amused by an extraordinary industry of itinerant entertainers. The travelling show was a practical solution for providing a small, widely distributed population with popular entertainment. The show embraced a diversity of popular culture, including opera, vaudeville, minstrels, moving pictures, magicians, brass bands, marionettes, menageries, merry-go-rounds and the circus.

The circus was universal in its appeal, for it combined many elements that other travelling entertainments had to offer, together with displays of fine horses and horsemanship.

Mark St Leon presents a comprehensive, entertaining and visually stunning history of circus in Australia.