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A Trip to the Light Fantastic: Travels with a Mexican Circus

An account of Katie Hickman's extraordinary year spent amidst the faded glamour of a Mexican travelling circus. Katie Hickman went to Mexico looking for magic. She found it in the circus — big top, clowns, elephant and all — where cheap, torn materials are transformed for a night into glittering illusion. Gradually adjusting to the harsh ways of the circus's nomadic lifestyle she soon became absorbed into this hypnotic new world. At first, as a foreigner, she was on the outskirts, but she soon became La Gringa Estrella, a performer in her own right and adopted sister to the Bell's family.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 301
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780006377153
  • Genres
  • travel, autobiography
  • Release date
  • 1995