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Author : Peter Lamont
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1560256613
Explores one of the most successful hoaxes of all time from the mystical East, and why people were so easily fooled.
Author : Peter Lamont
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0316724300
It is the greatest legend of the Orient. A rope is thrown into the air and rises into the sky until it is completely vertical. A boy then climbs the rope, higher and higher. There, in broad daylight and surrounded by spectators, the boy disappears. In this book th3e author reveals the truth behind this remarkable legend. The Indian rope trick isn't Indian, it doesn't involve a rope, and it isn't a trick. The author describes how a simple hoax grew into the world's most famous mystery, assisted on its way by those in search of fame and fortune, and by others whose aim was to destroy it in defence of the West.
Author : Peter Lamont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 4444419245
Author : Peter Lamont,Jim Steinmeyer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781524704452
Pull back the curtain on the real history of magic – and discover why magic really matters If you read a standard history of magic, you learn that it begins in ancient Egypt, with the resurrection of a goose in front of the Pharaoh. You discover how magicians were tortured and killed during the age of witchcraft. You are told how conjuring tricks were used to quell rebellious colonial natives. The history of magic is full of such stories, which turn out not to be true. Behind the smoke and mirrors, however, lies the real story of magic. It is a history of people from humble roots, who made and lost fortunes, and who deceived kings and queens. In order to survive, they concealed many secrets, yet they revealed some and they stole others. They engaged in deception, exposure, and betrayal, in a quest to make the impossible happen. They managed to survive in a world in which a series of technological wonders appeared, which previous generations would have considered magical. Even today, when we now take the most sophisticated technology for granted, we can still be astonished by tricks that were performed hundreds of years ago. The Secret History of Magic reveals how this was done. It is about why magic matters in a world that no longer seems to have a place for it, but which desperately needs a sense of wonder.
Author : Karl Fulves
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780486156644
From one of today's foremost experts: a guidebook with clear instructions and over 400 step-by-step illustrations that show readers how to perform 70 of the best, easiest-to-master, most entertaining rope tricks ever created.
Author : Colette Bryce
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0330435973
Colette Bryce's The Heel of Bernadette was one of the most highly praised new collections of recent years, winning both the Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection, and the Strong Award for best new Irish poet. Her second, The Full Indian Rope Trick – the title poem already the winner of the 2003 National Poetry Competition – sees a leap forward in confidence and range, with Bryce's dark lyric and darker wit finding many different voices. Whatever subject the poet takes – an Ulster childhood and the child's growing awareness of her divided community, the surreal life of the natural world, or the more disturbing shadows thrown by our love and desire – it is always addressed with both a compelling emotional candour and an astonishingly musical intelligence. Pillar Talk That magician/who stationed himself on a pillar/over Manhattan/for thirty-five hours/knows nothing whatever/of loneliness/or how it is/for people like us/who have no soft acre/of cardboard boxes/not even the eggshell/flashbulbs of the press/or the well-meant antics/of neighbours with a mattress/to temper the thought/of the hard, hard earth,/to break the fall./Nothing at all.
Author : Peter Lamont,Richard Wiseman
Publisher : Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781902806501
A useful manual for any magician or curious spectator who wonders why the tricks seem so real, this guide examines the psychological aspects of a magician’s work. Exploring the ways in which human psychology plays into the methods of conjuring rather than focusing on the individual tricks alone, this explanation of the general principles of magic includes chapters on the use of misdirection, sleight of hand, and reconstruction, provides a better understanding of this ancient art, and offers a section on psychics that warns of their deceptive magic skills.
Author : John Zubrzycki
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781529009828
India’s association with magic goes back thousands of years – from the seals of Mohenjodaro that depicted sorcerers and yogis, to the jugglers and acrobats that dazzled spectators at the courts of Hindu maharajas and Mughal emperors. Tales were told of ropes being thrown up in the air, strong enough for a boy to climb; of fakirs being buried alive for months and brought back to life; and of sanperas charming deadly cobras with their flutes. In the early nineteenth century, touring Indian magicians mesmerized audiences abroad, prompting generations of Western illusionists to emulate them. Jadoowallahs, Jugglers and Jinns: A Magical History of India tells the story of how Indian magic descended from the domain of the gods to become part of daily ritual and popular entertainment, and its transformation from the street to the stage culminating with the rise of the great P. C. Sorcar Sr. Drawing on ancient religious texts, colonial records, newspaper reports, journals and memoirs of Western and Indian magicians, John Zubrzycki offers us a vibrant narrative on Indian magic from ancient times to the present day.
Author : Jack Kodell
Publisher : Jeff Pierce Magic
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Magic tricks
ISBN : 1450766536
Author : Brian McGing,Judith Mossman
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589489
The genre of biography in the ancient world is interestingly diverse and permeable and deserves intensive study, bearing as it does on ideas of characterization and the individual. This volume considers both the form and the content of biography across the ancient world, and is particularly interested in the frontiers with other related genres, such as history. The papers range from the Old Testament to the Arab world, from the New Testament to the Lives of Saints, from the classic Greek and Roman biographers to less well known practitioners of the art.
Author : Patrick Page
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Conjuring
ISBN : 0722166648
Author : Roderick Matthews
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789350097236
‘In the mythical Indian rope trick, the rope stands straight up. Onlookers know, however, that the rope is staying up because the fakir wills it to stay up. India’s democracy is much the same. Some observers have found it hard to see how it could support itself, and many have expected it to fall. But it will stand if Indians want it to, and use their collective will to give it strength.’ When India shook off the chains of colonial rule in 1947, predictions abounded on how long it would take for the world’s largest democracy to fall apart. The new nation appeared to be too large and too diverse to be held together by a powerful centre, and some argued that it was an artificial creation that would soon break apart at the seams. Yet, more than 60 years and 16 general elections later, and through conflict, poverty, wars, famines, natural disasters, communal riots and separatist movements, nothing has stopped the Indian juggernaut from rolling on. Amid the chaos of 800 million voters and more than 8,000 candidates, the 2014 mandate marked yet another turn in India’s continuing tryst with democracy. What has kept the Indian system of governance ticking even as its neighbours have either become autocratic states or descended into dysfunctionality? How has India proved to the world that democracy may find its best home in the seemingly infinite mass that is the Indian population? In this testament to the resilience and indomitability of the Indian state, Roderick Matthews, bestselling author of Jinnah vs Gandhi, peels back layers to unveil a story that goes to the heart of this success. In exploring what it has taken for the country to overcome challenges, both external and internal, and drawing comparisons with the recent histories of India’s neighbours, Matthews argues that India’s constitutional foundations have allowed the nation to become the bedrock of democracy in the modern world.'
Author : Chris Goto-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781107076594
This book charts the history of modern magic across India, China and Japan, analyzing representations in the cultural imagination of the West.
Author : Albert A. Hopkins
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547375562
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, Including Trick Photography" by Albert A. Hopkins. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Jim Steinmeyer
Publisher : Random House
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Magic tricks
ISBN : 9780099476641
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.
