Carnival Undercover

Bret Witter

Plume, 2003 - Crafts & Hobbies - 207 pages

Step right up ladies and germs, and learn the time-honored secrets of America's amusement parks, carnivals and fairs Entertaining, hilarious, and filled with hundreds of insider tips, this handbook will teach you how to win the biggest prize every time, identify the best seat on any ride, recognize the freaks from the phonies, and create a carnival-quality funnel cake in your own home. This behind-the-scenes look at America's amusement parks also includes the goods on carnival trade secrets--from how cotton candy is made to which coasters have injured the most people. A book for the aficionado and pop culture enthusiast alike, Carnival Unercover is the next best thing to a day at the amusement park.

Contents

• Carnival Food Revealed: 29
• Carnival Games Revealed: 53
• Sideshows Revealed: 139

About the author

Bret Witter is a book editor and professional writer. For eleven years, he worked as an editor for HarperCollins, Penguin Putnam, and HCI. He was also a ghost writer during that time. He became a professional writer in 2007 and works primarily as a collaborator on histories and memoirs. His first book was a collaboration with Vicki Myron on Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat Who Touched the World. His other collaborations include The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History with Robert M. Edsel, Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever who Saved Him with Luis Carlos Montalván, Until I Say Goodbye: My Year of Living with Joy with Susan Spencer-Wendel, and Stronger with Jeff Bauman.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Carnival Undercover
• Author: Bret Witter
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Plume, 2003
• Original from: Indiana University
• Digitized: Aug 18, 2009
• ISBN: 0452284287, 9780452284289
• Length: 207 pages
• Subjects: Crafts & Hobbies / General; Games & Activities / Reference; Humor / Form / Essays; Performing Arts / General; Reference / Handbooks & Manuals; Reference / Personal & Practical Guides; Social Science / Customs & Traditions; Travel / Special Interest / Amusement & Theme Parks