"The story of a circus elephant's journey through life"
"Bad Elephant Far Stream" is an animal story for adults, a novel about the odyssey of a circus elephant, told from her own perspective, through her own eyes. Inspired by the true story of the circus elephant Topsy, it begins in the forests of Ceylon in the late 1860s with the capture of a baby elephant known to her own kind as Far Stream. She is taken to America and sent to the Adam Forepaugh Circus in Philadelphia. There, Far Stream embarks on a new life under the big top, appearing as "Topsy," part of Forepaugh's famed elephant...
"The story of a circus elephant's journey through life"
"Bad Elephant Far Stream" is an animal story for adults, a novel about the odyssey of a cir...
On March 17, 1897, in an open-air arena in Carson City, Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons fought for the heavyweight championship of the world. The contest was recorded by film pioneer Enoch Rector from inside an immense, human-powered camera called the "Veriscope," the forgotten Neanderthal at the dawn of cinema history. Rector's movie of the contest premiered two months later. Known today as...
"Movie buffs and boxing buffs alike will relish this " (Publishers Weekly)
