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Step right up! Ladies and gentlemen, prepare to be amazed amused, and
astounded by the strange and wonderful curiosities found on the inside
of a new book, Weird and Awesome Wonders by William V. Rauscher. A
spectacular amalgamation of strange and bizarre exhibits has been
assembled for your reading pleasure.
Here are people just like you except for their deformities, their misfortunes of nature, and their exotic (even disgusting) talents.
Meet Waldo who swallowed and regurgitated live mice. Peer in wonder at
Professor Heckler's Flea Circus. Stare (if you dare) at photos of
Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man. Discover Hadji Ali, the Egyptian
Enigma, who spouted water and kerosene brought up from his stomach.
Here, you'll find Percilla the Monkey Girl, Congo the Jungle Creep, the
Human Pincushion who stuck skewers through his body, the unbelievable
Mr. Lifto, and so man more.
For hundreds of years, audiences flocked to places like P.T. Barnum's
American Museum, Hubert's Museum, and circus midways and sideshows of
Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth. Changing tastes, dwindling
crows and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 have relegated
such exhibits to history. But now William Rauscher has brought them
alive again! Within the pages of this book you'll meet circus aerialist
Lillian Leitzel who fell 45 feet to her death from high above the circus
arena floor. You'll meet her trapeze-artist lover, Alfredo Codona, the
Adonis of the Altitudes, and be shocked at his violent end.
The great circuses under canvas, employing thousands of performers and
workers, are a thing of the past. Audiences may never again marvel at
the spectacular acts of terrifying tigers, prancing pachyderms,
boisterous bears, and human cannonballs. William Rauscher takes you on a
journey back to those thrilling days.
You may be shocked by the photos you see in Weird and Awesome Wonders.
You may thank God that you were not born one of them and put on display
for people to gawk at. Are you wondering who these people were and what
kind of lives they led? What to these sideshow freaks and performers
mean for us? Well, step right up and see it all in the new book Weird
& Awesome Wonders: An Episcopal cleric's journey through the world of
sideshows, circuses, carnivals and human oddities. As they said on the
bally platform outside the sideshow tent, "It's all on the inside, and
it is alive!"
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