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The James Adams Floating Theatre
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The James Adams Floating Theatre Hardcover - 1991

by C. Richard Gillespie


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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, when retirement proved boring, decided to build 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 several deaths.

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  • Title The James Adams Floating Theatre
  • Author C. Richard Gillespie
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Schiffer Publishing, Centreville, MD
  • Date 1991
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780870334160 / 0870334166
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.3 x 7.4 x 1.15 in (26.16 x 18.80 x 2.92 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects James Adams Floating Theatre - History, Showboats - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-11076
  • Dewey Decimal Code 792.022
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