Wallenda: A Biography of Karl Wallenda

Karl Wallenda was the most famous circus performer of the 20th Century. From the childhood days of poverty and performances in the 'Biergartens' of World War One Germany to earn enough money to feed his family to the days of triumph and tragedy as the headline act for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baily Circus the story of Karl Wallenda is a tale of unremitting courage, gargantuan strength and simple price in doing the one thing only he could do.Readers will be thrilled to read of the conquest of fear in the creation of heretofore impossible feats and saddened with the inevitable deaths when so much relies on pure courage and will.