Hiding The Elephant: How Magicians Invented The Impossible And Learned To Disappear

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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

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• Hiding the Elephant : How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear available on November 03 2023 from BiggerBooks for 12.42
  
• Hiding The Elephant: How Magicians Invented The Impossible And Learned To Disappear available on July 08 2023 from Indigo for 19.99
  
• Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear available on October 16 2015 from Amazon for 8.00
  
• ISBN bar code 9780786714018 ξ2 registered November 03 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780786714018 ξ3 registered July 08 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780786714018 ξ4 registered October 16 2015
  
• ISBN bar code 9780786714018 ξ1 registered February 16 2015
  
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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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References

^ Jim SteinmeyerHiding the Elephant : How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer (2004, Paperback) ISBN 9780786714018 (revised Mar 2015)
^ Steinmeyer, Jim (2014). Hiding the Elephant : How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear, Perseus Books Group. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780786714018 (revised Nov 2023)
^ Hiding The Elephant: How Magicians Invented The Impossible And Learned To Disappear Indigo. ISBN 9780786714018 (revised Jul 2023)
^ Jim Steinmeyer (2004). Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear, Da Capo Press. Amazon. ISBN 9780786714018 (revised Oct 2015)