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- William Carter Thompson
- On the Road With a Circus
Chapters
17 totalCHAPTER I THE MODERN CIRCUS
CHAPTER II ARRIVAL AND DEBARKATION
CHAPTER III EARLY SCENES ON THE LOT
CHAPTER IV THE PARADE
CHAPTER V THE SIDE-SHOW
CHAPTER VI AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE
CHAPTER VII THE MENAGERIE TENT
CHAPTER VIII LIFE WITH THE PERFORMERS
CHAPTER IX NIGHT SCENES AND EMBARKATION
CHAPTER X THE CIRCUS DETECTIVE
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Language
en
Duration
~5 hours (335K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by WebRover, MFR, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2020-05-13
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
William Carter Thompson
Best known for a lively 1905 book about circus life, this little-known writer brought readers behind the tents and into the hard work, motion, and spectacle of a traveling show. His surviving work still feels vivid because it pays as much attention to the people running the circus as to the performance itself.
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