Author: Joe Nickell
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813123585
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
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"Joe Nickell - once a carnival pitchman, then a magician, private detective, and investigative writer - has pursued sideshow secrets for years and has worked the famous carnival midway at the Canadian National Exhibition. For this book, he interviewed showmen and performers, collected carnival memorabilia, researched published accounts of sideshows and their lore, and even performed some classic sideshow feats, such as eating fire and lying on a bed of nails as a cinderblock was broken on his chest. The result of these varied efforts, Secrets of the Sideshows tells the captivating story of the magic, tricks - real or illusory - and performers of the world's midway shows."--BOOK JACKET.
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Author: Gilbert Parker
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Pages : 328
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Author: Walter Brown Gibson
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Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
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Pages : 1004
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Author: Edward Jewitt Wheeler
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1212
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
