
A Trip to the Light Fantastic by Katie Hickman
The author of this book spent a year travelling round Mexico with a circus - big top, clowns, elephants and all. She and her husband, photographer Tom Owen-Edmunds, lived with the circus - riding the elephants and playing clowns as part of the show. Further afield they tracked down the remains of ancient Mayan civilizations and hunted down the last, dying members of Pancho Villa's famous outlaw army. This travel book records the sights seen on their travels as well as featuring the people and characters of the circus and those they met en-route. By the author of "Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon" and "The Quetzal Summer".
Hickman, Katie: - Katie Hickman was born into a diplomatic family in 1960 and has spent more than twenty-five years living abroad in Europe, the Far East and Latin America. She is the author of three previous books: A Trip to the Light Fantastic -- Travels with a Mexican Circus, which was one of the Independent's 1993 Books of the Year and was short-listed for the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; The Quetzal Summer, a novel set in the Andes, for which she was short-listed for the 1993 Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award; and Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon -- a Journey into Bhutan. She is featured in the Oxford University Press guide to women travellers, Wayward Women.
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ISBN 13 | 9780006377153 |
ISBN 10 | 0006377157 |
Title | A Trip to the Light Fantastic |
Author | Katie Hickman |
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Binding Type | Paperback |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Year published | 1994-04-25 |
Number of pages | 320 |
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