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The Silver Road by Mark St Leon 9780947333102
The Silver Road by Mark St Leon 9780947333102
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The Life of Mervyn King, Circus Man.
242 pages, Paperback
21.5cm x 14cm
FIRST EDITION 1990
Goodreads Rating: 4.00 * 1 rating * 1 review
Acrobat, lion tamer, boss, tentman, animal trainer, circus proprietor, Mervyn King has spent most of his life in the circus. As a seven year old in 1915 his family decided to give him away to the circus and apprenticed as an acrobat. There were no adoption laws in 1915. In 1946 he formed Silver's Circus one of Australia's best loved shows in the post-war period. His was the first motorised circus to cross the Nullabor Plain to Western Australia by road.
The Silver Road is drawn from taped interviews with Mervyn with Mark St Leon on behalf of the Oral History Programme of the National Library of Australia.
Contains historical circus posters and photographs.
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