The Final Confession of Mabel Stark

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• She had five husbands - and a tiger in her tank

  The Final Confession of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough Atlantic £10.99, pp430 Mabel Stark née Mary Haynie, star of the 1920s Ringling Circus, trained innumerable tigers and married five husbands; evidently, she had a greater affinity for big cats than s ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• The Final Confession of Mabel Stark By Robert Hough

  First-time novelist Robert Hough was not the kind of boy who dreamed of running away with the circus. But later in life, after he read a brief biographical sketch of Mabel Stark, the greatest female tiger trainer of the 1910s and 1920s, the circus mo ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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  One of the best reads i've had in a long time - based on the real Mable Stark, who tamed tigers in circuses [including Barnum & Bailey] and shows from circa 1910 until not long before her death in the 1960s, survived a few husbands and several maulings [a few nearly fatal] from her animals - and liv ... (continue)

  One of the best reads i've had in a long time - based on the real Mable Stark, who tamed tigers in circuses [including Barnum & Bailey] and shows from circa 1910 until not long before her death in the 1960s, survived a few husbands and several maulings [a few nearly fatal] from her animals - and lived and died on her own terms whenever it was possible for her.

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• English Books
• Paperback 440 Pages
• Edition: Reprint
• ISBN-10: 0802140432
• ISBN-13: 9780802140432
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Pub date: Feb 01, 2004
• Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover

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