American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers
- ISBN-10
- 1585425303
- ISBN-13
- 9781585425303
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 291
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Marc Hartzman
Description
Profiles some two hundred lesser-known figures from the heyday of the American sideshow, tracing the lives of such individuals as legless acrobat Eli Bowen, four-legged woman Myrtle Corbin, and "human torso" Prince Randian, in an account of the rise and fall of sideshows and how advances in modern medicine have enabled voluntary body changes. Reprint.
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