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Secrets of the Sideshows
Joe Nickell
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Description for Secrets of the Sideshows
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, 178 photographs. BIC Classification: ASZ; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
On small-town ballfields and county fairgrounds, the sideshow performers set up their tents and trailers in the shadow of the Ferris wheel. There they amazed us with daring feats such as fire eating and sword swallowing, intrigued us with exhibitions of human oddities and various "anatomical wonders," and yes, deceived us with illusions such as "Atasha the Gorilla Girl" and even outright fakes. These bizarre spectacles engaged the mind as well as the eye. Was the human blockhead act, in which the performer pounded a large nail or ice pick into his nostril, real or fake? Was the so-called alligator ... Read more
On small-town ballfields and county fairgrounds, the sideshow performers set up their tents and trailers in the shadow of the Ferris wheel. There they amazed us with daring feats such as fire eating and sword swallowing, intrigued us with exhibitions of human oddities and various "anatomical wonders," and yes, deceived us with illusions such as "Atasha the Gorilla Girl" and even outright fakes. These bizarre spectacles engaged the mind as well as the eye. Was the human blockhead act, in which the performer pounded a large nail or ice pick into his nostril, real or fake? Was the so-called alligator ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813191959
SKU
V9780813191959
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-18
About Joe Nickell
Joe Nickell, Senior Research Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), is the author of more than twenty investigative books, including Secrets of the Sideshows and Real-Life X-Files: Investigating the Paranormal.
Reviews for Secrets of the Sideshows
To find out how it's done, and other carnival minutiae, browse Nickell's comprehensive Secrets of the Sideshows. - Entertainment Weekly ""A widely researched and splendidly illustrated history of the bizarre world of the exhibited abnormal and the demonstrated impossible."" - Foreword Magazine