Memoirs Circus
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Barnum's Own Story
- The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum
- By: P. T. Barnum
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits, revealing the whole story of his world-famous hoaxes and publicity stunts. Here is a pageant of 19th-century America's gullibility and thirst for marvels, as told by the master of revels himself.
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interesting but repetitive
- By Amazin Karen on 25-02-24
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Barnum's Own Story
- The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 25-06-19
- Language: English
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P. T. Barnum's career of showmanship and charlatanry was marked by a surprising undercurrent of honesty and forthrightness. His exuberant autobiography forms a happy combination of all those traits, revealing the whole story of his world-famous hoaxes and publicity stunts....
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Anansi's Gold
- The Man Who Swindled the World
- By: Yepoka Yeebo
- Narrated by: Jude Owusu
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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When Ghana declared independence from Britain in 1957, it immediately became a target for opportunists determined to lay hold of whatever assets colonialism hadn’t already stripped. The military ousted the new nation’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of stealing the country’s gold and hiding it overseas. Into this story stepped one of history’s most charismatic scammers, John Ackah Blay-Miezah – a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty, Blay-Miezah declared himself the custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth billions.
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comprehensive baut suspiciously so
- By G F W H Dagger on 07-03-24
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Anansi's Gold
- The Man Who Swindled the World
- Narrated by: Jude Owusu
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 31-08-23
- Language: English
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Yepoka Yeebo reveals the astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th century’s longest and most audacious frauds....
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Piccadilly
- The Circus at the Heart of London
- By: Midge Gillies
- Narrated by: Jessica Alade
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. From the moment they emerge, blinking from the underground station, visitors to Piccadilly Circus face a sensory onslaught. Its streets and alleyways merge into an intoxicating thoroughfare, with the power to propel an individual onwards to adventure, romance, or something more sinister. Ever since its iconic Eros statue appeared in 1893, the junction has been a vibrant meeting place, attracting visitors and pleasure-seekers from all walks of life
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Piccadilly
- The Circus at the Heart of London
- Narrated by: Jessica Alade
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 13-10-22
- Language: English
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There's nowhere quite like Piccadilly Circus. This is the story of why Piccadilly Circus continues to mean so much to so many....
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P.T. Barnum: A Captivating Guide to the American Showman Who Founded What Became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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He wasn’t always the Great Showman. In fact, Phineas Taylor Barnum grew up in relative poverty with only his wits to help him along. When his father died, the 15-year-old boy entered the working world as a shopkeeper’s assistant. In leaps and bounds, he worked his way from assistant to shop owner, lottery office owner, and, eventually, entertainment promoter. The bulk of his career was focused on his beloved American Museum, where thousands of ticket holders flocked every day to look at the human oddities, stuffed animals, live whale, and American memorabilia.
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Just the right level for me to understand
- By Rowan Elian on 04-07-18
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P.T. Barnum: A Captivating Guide to the American Showman Who Founded What Became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
- Narrated by: Duke Holm
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 21-06-18
- Language: English
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He wasn’t always the Great Showman. In fact, Phineas Taylor Barnum grew up in relative poverty with only his wits to help him along. When his father died, the 15-year-old boy entered the working world as a shopkeeper’s assistant....
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Grizzly Adams: The Life of the Mountain Man Who Trained Bears and Other Wild Animals for the Circus
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
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By the golden age of the mountain man in the mid-19th-century, there were perhaps only 3,000 living in the West. Their origins were disparate, although they included many Anglo-Americans. A good number hailed from wilderness regions of Kentucky and Virginia and throughout the newly purchased Louisiana Territory, which occupied the entire central section of the continent. French Canadians traveled from the north to work in the fur trade, while Creole-Europeans represented approximately 15 percent of the men known to be living the isolated mountain life.
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Grizzly Adams: The Life of the Mountain Man Who Trained Bears and Other Wild Animals for the Circus
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Release date: 17-07-18
- Language: English
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Supplying the American portion of animal life from the West Coast for city audiences, Grizzly Adams provided one of the “most amazing frontier biographies” in the mountain man era. The son of cotton mills and boot factories inexplicably went on to fame. Listen to learn more about Adams....
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Fighting the Flying Circus
- By: Eddie Rickenbacker
- Narrated by: Brett W. Downey
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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Eddie Rickenbacker was a WWI fighter ace. He arrived in France as a fresh greenie who knew little about flying and less about air combat. He learned everything he needed while fighting against the German air force and the famous Flying Circus commanded by Manfred von Richthofen. In this biography of his wartime experiences, Eddie tells us of his midair adventures and battles as well as how he learned to "defeat the hun" and earned the title of Ace.
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Fighting the Flying Circus
- Narrated by: Brett W. Downey
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 19-09-16
- Language: English
- Eddie Rickenbacker was a WWI fighter ace. He arrived in France as a fresh greenie who knew little about flying and less about air combat....
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Struggles and Triumphs
- Forty Years Recollections of P.T. Barnum
- By: Phineas Taylor Barnum
- Narrated by: Alan Munro
- Length: 25 hrs
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The original American entrepreneur! One of the great historical business leaders shares his observations on making money. A must-listen for anyone interested in business.
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Struggles and Triumphs
- Forty Years Recollections of P.T. Barnum
- Narrated by: Alan Munro
- Length: 25 hrs
- Release date: 22-09-22
- Language: English
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The original American entrepreneur! One of the great historical business leaders shares his observations on making money. A must-listen for anyone interested in business....
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Love in the Elephant Tent
- How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home
- By: Kathleen Cremonesi
- Narrated by: Isabella Inchbald
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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Kathleen Cremonesi knew early on she wanted to be different. Determined to avoid following in her mother’s footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe. On a whim, this former administrative assistant with wanderlust took a job as a dancer in an Italian circus and, working her way up, became an ostrich-riding, shark-taming showgirl. Kathleen bonds with the exotic animals that could strike and kill at any moment, but instead bring her a peace she has never known. And when she stumbles into the arms of Stefano, the sexy elephant keeper, she finds a man who understands her wild spirit.
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Love in the Elephant Tent
- How Running Away with the Circus Brought Me Home
- Narrated by: Isabella Inchbald
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 09-10-18
- Language: English
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Kathleen Cremonesi knew early on she wanted to be different. Determined to avoid following in her mother’s footsteps to an ill-fated marriage, Kathleen left Oregon in her early 20s to travel across Europe....
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Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion: And Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus
- By: Paul Binder
- Narrated by: Max Samuels, Glenn Close - Foreword
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
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Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion: And Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus is a celebration of Paul Binders life in and around the circus. Drawing on 35 years with the show he created, the Big Apple Circus founder and founding Artistic Director invites us inside the fence every kid peers through for an intimate look at the uncommon life of circus artists, their animal partners, and the roustabouts who spend their days in a world that is both close-knit and international, high-minded and low comedy, death-defying and ludicrous.
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Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion: And Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus
- Narrated by: Max Samuels, Glenn Close - Foreword
- Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion: And Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus is a celebration of Paul Binders life in and around the circus....
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