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Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
by Jim Steinmeyer
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ISBN13: 9780786714018 |
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Now in paperback comes Jim Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competition within the world of magicians. Lauded by today's finest magicians and critics, Hiding the Elephant is a cultural history of the efforts among legendary conjurers to make things materialize, levitate, and disappear. Steinmeyer unveils the secrets and life stories of the fascinating personalities behind optical marvels such as floating ghosts interacting with live actors, disembodied heads, and vanishing ladies. He demystifies Pepper's Ghost, Harry Kellar's Levitation of Princess Karnak, Charles Morritt's Disappearing Donkey, and Houdini's landmark vanishing of Jennie the elephant in 1918. The dramatic mix of science and history, with revealing diagrams, photographs and magicians' portraits by William Stout, provides a glimpse behind the curtain at the backstage story of magic.
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Now in paperback comes Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competition within the world of magicians.
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Brett, January 14, 2008 (view all comments by Brett)
What a great introduction to a world I knew very little about. (Hey not every book I read has to do with war and killing.) This is an awesome history of magic and magicians and the tricks that made them famous. It tells you how the trick was done without taking away all of the romance of the Golden Age of Magic. A great light read, something to take you away to another place and another time.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780786714018
- Subtitle:
- How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
- Foreword:
- Stout, William
- Illustrator:
- Stout, William
- Foreword:
- Teller
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Carroll & Graf Publishers
- Subject:
- Magic
- Subject:
- Modern - General
- Subject:
- HISTORY / Modern / General
- Publication Date:
- August 2004
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 362
- Dimensions:
- 900x600
