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Magic 1400s–1950s
Av Jim Steinmeyer, Mike Caveney m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
932 kr
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Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility—whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature by …
Magic Book
Av Jim Steinmeyer, Mike Caveney m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
525 kr
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Magic has enchanted humankind for millennia, evoking terror, laughter, shock, and amazement. Once persecuted as heretics and sorcerers, magicians have always been conduits to a parallel universe of limitless possibility—whether invoking spirits, reading minds, or inverting the laws of nature by …
Hiding The Elephant
How Magicians Invented the Impossible
Häftad, 2005
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
137 kr
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This is the story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's most legendary magicians: the eccentric personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear.We meet Harry Kellar, the ruthless thief of secrets who was the …
The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards
Häftad, 2012
367 kr
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Who Was Dracula?: Bram Stoker's Trail of Blood
Häftad, 2014
326 kr
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The acclaimed author of The Last Greatest Magician in the World sleuths out literature's iconic vampire, uncovering the source material—from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman—behind Bram Stoker's lord of the undead. Praise for Who Was Dracula? “A fantastic, …
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Häftad, 2004
335 kr
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Glorious Deception
The Double Life of William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo, the Marvelous Chinese Conjurer
Häftad, 2006
239 kr
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In a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, master illusion designer and today's foremost magic historian, Jim Steinmeyer, unveils the astonishing secrets behind the enigmatic performer Chung Ling Soo, the "marvellous Chinese Conjurer" , a magician whose life of intrigue and …
Art and Artifice
And Other Essays of Illusion
Av Jim Steinmeyer, Neil Gaiman
Häftad, 2006
198 kr
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From the author of Hiding the Elephant and The Glorious Deception comes a collection of five essays that shows how the great stage illusions were integrally products of their time, based on the traditions and fashions of the people, and the offspring of the incredible, inventive personalities who …
Last Greatest Magician in the World
Howard Thurston Versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards
E-bok, 2011
205 kr
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Here is the seminal biography of the magician''s magician, Howard Thurston, a man who surpassed Houdini in the eyes of showmen and fans and set the standard fro how stage magic is performed today. Everyone knows Houdini-but who was Thurston? In this rich, vivid biography of the "greatest magician …
Who Was Dracula?
Bram Stoker''s Trail of Blood
E-bok, 2013
115 kr
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The acclaimed author of The Last Greatest Magician in the World sleuths out literature''s iconic vampire, uncovering the source material—from folklore and history, to personas including Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman—behind Bram Stoker''s lord of the undead. Praise for Who Was Dracula? “A fantastic, …
Charles Fort
The Man Who Invented the Supernatural
E-bok, 2008
213 kr
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The seminal biography of the twentieth century’s premier chronicler of the paranormal, Charles Fort—a man whose very name gave rise to an adjective, fortean , to describe the unexplained. By the early 1920s, Americans were discovering that the world was a strange place. Charles Fort could …
Secret History of Magic
The True Story of a Deceptive Art
Av Jim Steinmeyer, Peter Lamont
E-bok, 2018
79 kr
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Two renowned historians of stage magic team up to produce this definitive, engaging history of stage magic, from Ancient Egypt to David Copperfield. Fifty glorious illustrations throughout. This is the story of how conjurors managed to survive in a world of modern wonders. It is a history of …
