Around the World for Eighty Years; The Memoirs of an Old Equestrian
Tancook Island, Nova Scotia: Little Daisy Press, 1994. First English-language edition (1st pub. in German in 1925). Soft cover. 77p, several photos and other ills. Unrelated gift inscription on title page. Very good (spine faded). Item #33185
Translation of Aus einem bunten Leben. Leo Weste (1845-1926) was a German animal trainer and equestrian for various European and American circuses, including Forepaugh's and Hagenbeck's. His descendant, Anja Weste Pearre, translated his autobiography and untangled various facts about his life from unpublished family papers, which she documents in the footnotes. Weste devoted one chapter to how he survived the 1875 sinking of the German steamship S.S. Schiller, in which hundreds of passengers perished. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. Uncommon.
Price: $30.00