Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of high-wire acrobatics and the cultu

This pioneering study is one of the major publications in the increasingly popular and largely undocumented area of circus studies. Through photographs and illu

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