Length6h 31m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "The faithful recording of daily life with one of the "big shows," wandering with it under all vicissitudes, fortunate or adverse, is the errand on which this book is sent. You and I will travel from the distraction and tumult of the summer season to the congenial quiet of winter quarters, and survey operations from the hour when new and unwonted scenes and sounds startle city quiet or country seat retirement until the stealthy breaking of the white encampment and the departure from town. We will scrutinize the entrance of strangers into strange lands and observe the rising and expansion of the tents as an army of men stamp their image upon the earth. Our astonished eye will gaze upon the gorgeous pageant of the parade and returning to the grounds will peer freely and familiarly about the place of strange sounds and entrancing sights. We will watch the master mind of the circus and his associates in counsel and action. We will study the life, character, and habits of the motley throng of "show" people and learn of morals and manners, of hopes and fears, of trials and solicitudes; and we will pass sunny hours on meadows enamelled with violets and daisies and goldened with buttercups and dandelions, where the circus is passing its day."
Audiobook details
GenreYoung Adult, Fantasy
Length6 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I THE MODERN CIRCUS
2CHAPTER II ARRIVAL AND DEBARKATION
3CHAPTER III EARLY SCENES ON THE LOT
4CHAPTER IV THE PARADE
5CHAPTER V THE SIDE-SHOW
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6CHAPTER VI AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE
7CHAPTER VII THE MENAGERIE TENT
8CHAPTER VIII LIFE WITH THE PERFORMERS
9CHAPTER IX NIGHT SCENES AND EMBARKATION
10CHAPTER X THE CIRCUS DETECTIVE
11CHAPTER XI THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CIRCUS HORSE
12CHAPTER XII THE CIRCUS BAND BY BANDMASTER WILLIAM MERRICK
13CHAPTER XIII WITH THE ELEPHANTS
14CHAPTER XIV THE GENERAL MANAGER
15CHAPTER XV AMERICAN CIRCUS TRIUMPHANT
16CHAPTER XVI THE OLD-FASHIONED CIRCUS
17CHAPTER XVII THE CIRCUS PRESS AGENT
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