Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion: And Other Uncommon Tales from the Founder of the Big Apple Circus (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481731911)

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 Binder's life in and around the circus. Drawing on thirty-five 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.

Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion (and other uncommon tales from the founder of the Big Apple Circus) balances the weird and the workaday, the curious and the commonplace, the exhilaration and the exhaustion of life in the circus, with simple portrayals of ordinary people going about the business of achieving the extraordinary.


Author: Paul Binder
ISBN-10: 1481731912
ISBN-13: 9781481731911
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2013
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001