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Author:
Parsons, Neil.
Title:
Clicko : the wild dancing bushman / Neil Parsons ; foreword by Andrew McCall Smith.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2010
Description:
xv, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Taibosh, Franz,--d. 1940.
Circus performers--Biography.
Korana (African people)--United States--Biography.
Other Authors:
McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-
Notes:
Originally published: Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2009. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Growing up in the snow mountains -- Recruited at Kimberley -- Enter Paddy Hepston -- Disappearance to Australasia or the far east? -- The dancing bushman in London -- Dancing in Cambridge and Paris -- Hiding from humanitarians -- Margate rendezvous -- From Dublin to Havana -- Coney Island and Havana again -- Joining Barnum and Bailey's circus -- Kidnap in Connecticut -- "I am an American gentleman" -- Sam Gumpertz takes over -- High life with Frank and Evelyn -- "I inherited a bushman" -- California interlude -- The great terminal dance.
ISBN:
0226647420 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780226647425 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226647412 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226647418 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)587198872
LCCN:
2010018261
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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