The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus.
by Wilkins, Charles
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0771088477
- ISBN 13
- 9780771088476
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The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus. Wilkins, Charles. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto. 1998. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 270 pages. Blue boards with silver spine titles. Both volume and unclipped jacket in fine, unmarked condition.
"…. One of North Americas few remaining traveling circuses, The Great Wallenda Circus is run by the scion of a great …. 20th-century circus family, Rick Wallenda whose own high-wire career was ended by a crippling 40-foot fall in early 1996.... Charles Wilkins, followed the circus on a beleaguered month-long tour of central Canada, determined to find out why these performers choose such a difficult and dangerous life, and, to that end, skillfully elicits stories, both terrifying and enlightening…. The picture that emerges is one of an honorable profession peopled by dedicated, iconoclastic artists."
"…. One of North Americas few remaining traveling circuses, The Great Wallenda Circus is run by the scion of a great …. 20th-century circus family, Rick Wallenda whose own high-wire career was ended by a crippling 40-foot fall in early 1996.... Charles Wilkins, followed the circus on a beleaguered month-long tour of central Canada, determined to find out why these performers choose such a difficult and dangerous life, and, to that end, skillfully elicits stories, both terrifying and enlightening…. The picture that emerges is one of an honorable profession peopled by dedicated, iconoclastic artists."
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- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
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- 3129
- Title
- The Circus at the Edge of the Earth: Travels with the Great Wallenda Circus.
- Author
- Wilkins, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0771088477
- ISBN 13
- 9780771088476
- Publisher
- Mcclelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- 1998
- Bookseller catalogs
- MEMOIR AND BIO; MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS;
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