Continental Circus

Author : Maureen Brunsdale
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Aerialists
ISBN : 9781538172117

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In the Shadow of the Big Top by Maureen Brunsdale Pdf

"The first-ever biography of Art Concello, one of the world's greatest trapeze artists and circus businessmen, this book goes beyond the showmanship displayed in the ring to reveal the inner workings of the circus that could both thrill a crowd and make incredible money"--

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785908866

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The Spy Who Came in from the Circus by Christopher Andrew Pdf

For almost half a century, Bertram Mills Circus was a household name throughout Britain among both children and adults and it's Director, Cyril Bertram Mills, was one of the best-known and most influential names in the country's entertainment business. But for forty years, Cyril Mills had also enjoyed a top-secret and wide-ranging career in British intelligence: obtaining the best aerial intelligence on Nazi rearmament for MI6 before the Second World War; becoming the first case officer to monitor the best double agent (Garbo) of the war after joining MI5; and working part-time during the Cold War 'for MI5 or 6 or both without being paid a penny'. Remarkably, no word of Mills's secret career appeared in public until he was over eighty. Nobody suspected that the glamorous world of pre-war circus entertainment had been an extraordinarily fitting rehearsal for the lethal arena of deception and surveillance. In this remarkable true story, Christopher Andrew, best-selling official biographer of MI5, brings to life one of the most surprising and fascinating tales of espionage ever told.

Author : Mick Walker
Publisher : Redline Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780954435790

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The Manx Norton by Mick Walker Pdf

The most famous of all British racing motorcycles, with an ancestry dating back to the very dawn of the internal combustion engine, the 'cammy' Norton is inseparable from the era of British domination in motorcycle racing. It is linked with the legendary heroes of the sport, Jimmie Guthrie, Harold Daniell, Geoff Duke, John Surtees, Mike Hailwood and the age when Britain had the world's finest motorcycle industry. This revised edition of the definitive history contains additional material and traces the design, development, the leading riders and tuners. It presents a superb collection of photographs, many previously unpublished. The Manx Norton covers not only the Manx itself, but also features boardroom battles, Norton's early history, record breaking, sidecars, Formula 3 cars, scrambling (motocross); the Domiracer; racing at Daytona and today's classic scene.

Author : Christian Lacombe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0448115522

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The Motorcycle by Christian Lacombe Pdf

Author : Akinori Kikuchi,Masato Harada,Dar Sorrell,F.L. Horn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : OCLC:703441429

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Continental Circus by Akinori Kikuchi,Masato Harada,Dar Sorrell,F.L. Horn Pdf

Author : Simon Matthews
Publisher : Oldcastle Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843444589

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Psychedelic Celluloid by Simon Matthews Pdf

Psychedelic Celluloid is the definitive guide to the decade when swinging London was the film capital of the world. Illustrated throughout with colour images of the period and covering over 300 British and European films and TV shows, Psychedelic Celluloid moves from the Beatles via Bond spin offs to crazy personal folies des grandeurs, Blow Up and its imitators, concert movies, documentaries, stylish horror films and many more. Carefully researched and drawing on interviews with some of the survivors of the era, Psychedelic Celluloid provides a witty and detailed account of each major production, listing its stars, directors, producers and music and showing how they were linked to the fashion and trends of the period.'Psychedelic Celluloid covers the swinging sixties in minute detail, noting the influence of pop on hundreds of productions' - The Independent 'While the pop and rock of the 60s has been the subject of innumerable studies, and people have catalogued the films too, often at great length, up until now no one has put the two together' -Little White Lies 'A richly illustrated guide' - The Bookseller

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435066966524

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The London Journal, and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131841170

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Pick-me-up by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mo Foster
Publisher : McNidder & Grace
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780857162281

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British Rock Guitar by Mo Foster Pdf

The guitar has become the most emotive musical instrument of the last 50 years of rock and roll. From the early days when wannabee stars fashioned homemade guitars out of old tea chests, to today's sophisticated instruments the impact has been phenomenal. In this book, Mo Foster, one of the industry's most prestigious bass guitarists, and renowned producer, composer and session musician draws upon his own recollections and those of some of the greatest exponents of the rock guitar, from Hank Marvin to Eric Clapton and Brian May. Once managed by Ronnie Scott, Foster has recorded and toured with many of the world's biggest musical icons including Jeff Beck, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Gerry Rafferty, Van Morrison and George Martin. In this insightful, passionate and humorous book Mo Foster has written the definitive history of the importance of the guitar in the development of British music over the last 50 years.

Author : David Bradby,Louis James,Bernard Sharratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521285240

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Performance and Politics in Popular Drama by David Bradby,Louis James,Bernard Sharratt Pdf

Since the beginning of the nineteenth-century, many forms of theatre have been called 'popular', but in the twentieth-century the term 'popular drama' has taken on definite political overtones, often indicating a repudiation of 'commercial theatre'. Does this mean that political theatre is or tries to be more attractive to more people than commercial theatre? Does it conversely mean that commercial theatre has no political effects? The articles in this book were submitted as papers for a conference on the theme of 'popular' theatre, film and television. Contributions came from people with very different types of experience: from an ex-animal trainer to a lecturer in film studies; from playwrights, directors and actors to professional critics and academics. Each author focused on a particular problem of defining drama in performance, drawing together the conditions of performance, the types of audience and the political effects of the plays or films in question. The result was a series of fruitful connections and juxtapositions that shows the remarkable continuity of the problems raised in attempts to create a popular political drama.

Author : T. Allston Brown
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780913960332

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Amphitheatres and Circuses by T. Allston Brown Pdf

Originally serialized in the New York Clipper, T. Allston Brown's history of circus and arena performances remains a foundation stone of all subsequent research into this field. Theatre and circus historian William L. Slout provides an introduction framing Brown's narrative, plus a comprehensive index, and contemporaneous illustrations.

Author : Robert Perret
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781787055209

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Dead Ringers - Sherlock Holmes Stories by Robert Perret Pdf

Join Holmes and Watson on eleven original adventures, spanning their earliest collaboration to their service to the Crown in the Great War. Revisit A Study in Scarlet, return to The Copper Beeches, and learn the shocking truth behind the Bogus Laundry Affair. There will be murder under the big top, ancient prophecies come true, and a mysterious new queen of crime all putting the Great Detective to the test in these action-packed stories. This volume collects the best traditional pastiches by Robert Perret, Sherlockian author and scholar, and member of the John H. Watson Society and Doyle's Rotary Coffin.

Author : Hedley J. Cox
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781465324474

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From the Race Shop Floor by Hedley J. Cox Pdf

This is the inside story of how motorcycle race team of the 'forties worked. How a division in the company's outlook drove it to bankruptcy. The story of how a member of the racing team saw it all. How he participated in racing, and devised a new machine, but was swept aside. How he emigrated, and tried to get a factory to embrace a new world view but was frustrated again. Lessons that Detroit might heed. How he moved into an academic program, and aided the US Air Force in its search for lower costs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : IND:30000090386990

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Airman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Orin Copple King
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1465329161

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Only Big Show Coming by Orin Copple King Pdf

Only Big Show Coming is an amended and greatly enlarged version of articles published in Bandwagon: The Journal of the Circus Historical Society between 1982 and 1999. Volume I covers the routes, reviews and incidents surrounding circus and wild west performances in Kansas between 1853 and 1878, and provides an intriguing view of life in the Victorian west.