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Hiding The Elephant How Magicians Invented the Impossible

Steinmeyer Jim
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099476641
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
Arrow Books Ltd
Vekt
284 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Steinmeyer Jim

Biographical note

Jim Steinmeyer has designed illusions for David Copperfield, Ricky Jay, Siegfried & Roy and Orson Welles, and for six Broadway shows including The Beauty and the Beast. A consultant for a six-part BBC documentary on the history of magic and producer of a Channel 4 documentary, he designed the illusions for Richard Eyre's Mary Poppins and is a contributing editor of Magic magazine.

Hiding The Elephant How Magicians Invented the Impossible

Steinmeyer Jim
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk
Steinmeyer Jim
Heftet / 2005 / Engelsk
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An extremely entertaining history of magic

Sunday Telegraph

Highly readable... fascinating... remarkable

The Mail

Steinmeyer's history of the golden age of stage magic was a dazzling read, and has given me a few ideas about how to keep the family entertained at Christmas

- Matthew Sweet, Independent

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A highly entertaining study of magic's Golden Age

The Times

Highly readable ... fascinating ... A remarkable collection of strongly motivated egomaniacs and charlatans, all depicted in the boldest of colours

Marcus Berkman

A fascinating history of mirror illusions and the magicians who created them

- Nicholas Blincoe, The Telegraph

Steinmeyer ... has a gift for translating stage performances to the page

Time Out

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 model for the Wizard of Oz, and PT Selbit, the first man to saw a woman in half on stage.We meet John Nevil Maskelyne, whose Egyptian Theatre was a London institution for sixty years. Hiding the Elephant is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who knows the tricks inside out, and still believes.
Les mer
Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear. This book is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who knows the tricks inside out, and still believes.
Les mer
'A highly entertaining study of magic's Golden Age' (The Times). Simon Mayo and Independent Book of the Year and International Bestseller. The true story behind Jonathan Strange

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An extremely entertaining history of magic

Sunday Telegraph

Highly readable... fascinating... remarkable

The Mail

Steinmeyer's history of the golden age of stage magic was a dazzling read, and has given me a few ideas about how to keep the family entertained at Christmas

- Matthew Sweet, Independent

Se alle

A highly entertaining study of magic's Golden Age

The Times

Highly readable ... fascinating ... A remarkable collection of strongly motivated egomaniacs and charlatans, all depicted in the boldest of colours

Marcus Berkman

A fascinating history of mirror illusions and the magicians who created them

- Nicholas Blincoe, The Telegraph

Steinmeyer ... has a gift for translating stage performances to the page

Time Out

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 model for the Wizard of Oz, and PT Selbit, the first man to saw a woman in half on stage.We meet John Nevil Maskelyne, whose Egyptian Theatre was a London institution for sixty years. Hiding the Elephant is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who knows the tricks inside out, and still believes.
Les mer
Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize, levitate and disappear. This book is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic, who knows the tricks inside out, and still believes.
Les mer
'A highly entertaining study of magic's Golden Age' (The Times). Simon Mayo and Independent Book of the Year and International Bestseller. The true story behind Jonathan Strange

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099476641
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
Arrow Books Ltd
Vekt
284 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Forfatter
Steinmeyer Jim

Biographical note

Jim Steinmeyer has designed illusions for David Copperfield, Ricky Jay, Siegfried & Roy and Orson Welles, and for six Broadway shows including The Beauty and the Beast. A consultant for a six-part BBC documentary on the history of magic and producer of a Channel 4 documentary, he designed the illusions for Richard Eyre's Mary Poppins and is a contributing editor of Magic magazine.

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