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About this book

The Ways of the Circus: Being the Memories and Adventures of George Conklin, Tamer of Lions, 1921. A lion tamer's life story — back in print.

George Conklin faced lions for a living in the golden age of the American circus, and this 1921 memoir is his story: the adventures, the close calls, the menagerie world behind the big top. It is the circus as the performers lived it — not the poster's romance but the sawdust reality, told by a man who earned every scar.

Circus historians and big-top nostalgists will find 346 pages of first-hand material you cannot get anywhere else: the training, the travel, the menagerie, and the strange brotherhood of the circus lot. A vivid, plain-spoken memoir from a vanished profession.

The lion tamer's own story, reproduced complete.

Back in print as a hardcover built to last on the shop shelf.

Details: 6×9" hardcover (case laminate), 346 pages, black and white interior, cream paper.

⚠️ Please read before ordering — about print quality

This is a print-on-demand reprint of a scanned historical document. The pages were scanned from an original 1921 printing, and the print quality of your book reflects the condition of that original scan.

What that means in plain terms: you may see faded text, uneven inking, age spots, show-through from the back of pages, and other imperfections that were in the 1921 original or introduced by the scanning process. These are preserved as-is — they are not printing defects, and they are not something we can fix.

We are not responsible for the condition of the original source material. If you want a pristine modern typeset book, this isn't it. If you want the actual 1921 manual with all its character intact, you're in the right place.

Printed on demand by IngramSpark. One copy at a time — no inventory, no waste.