Unique IDLIB-00015091Date1st January 2011Date qualifieryear onlyDescriptionDescription: Mark St Leon presents a comprehensive, entertaining and visually stunning history of circus in Australia. His interest was sparked by his insatiable curiosity about his own family's celebrated past in Australian circus. You will read how a colonial circus industry developed out of its Old World roots; how the saga of circus is woven into the historical fabric of modern Australia; how circus in Australia absorbed influences from as far afield as America, Japan and Europe; how Australia has been visited by some of the world's major circus companies; and how Australia's circus people have coped with unrelenting social, cultural, technological and economic change.
Genesis
The Astleys of the antipodes
Gold, gravel and grit
Dust and spangles
Foreign exchange
Wirth's Circus
Road shows
Oz circus
Public Note: Includes indexLanguageEnglish (eng)IllustrationsColour illustrationsBlack and white illustrationsPublisherMelbourne BooksPlace of publicationMelbourne
Victoria
Australia
Circus: the Australian story/ Mark St Leon (01/01/2011), [LIB-00015091]. City of Sydney Archives, accessed 23 Dec 2024, https://archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/1752195
