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The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his own carnival company, and later, when retirement proved boring, decided to build himself a showboat. The book traces the history of the James Adams from its inception until its demise twenty-seven years later, a tale that includes fires, sinkings, a shooting, arrests, and even several deaths.

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Book category Books in English The arts Dance & other performing arts Other performing arts

• Full title: James Adams Floating Theatre
• Author: C. Richard Gillespie
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780870334160
• ISBN: 9780870334160
• ID: 06445392
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
• Weight: 868 g
• Dimensions: 261 × 190 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. September 2009

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