Review by kalinichta - Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear

A review by kalinichta
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer

4.0

This is a wonderful history of the high points of stage magic, centering around the early 1900s, within a framework of explaining how Houdini vanished an elephant on the stage of the Hippodrome. Woven throughout are real-life stories of intrique, espionage, jealousy, creativity and love (of magic) - along with the secrets of how some of the most memorable stage illusions actually work.

Very readable and edifying.

A review by kalinichta Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer

A review by kalinichta
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear by Jim Steinmeyer