Frost follows the English circus from the travelling showmen and fairground tumblers of earlier centuries to the great equestrian companies of his own day. Along the way he profiles riders, clowns, rope-dancers and gymnasts, among them the Brothers Ellis on the horizontal bar, and describes the feats he watched from the benches himself.
A lively, anecdote-rich record of a vanished world of sawdust and spangles. Download the free EPUB.