Conjurians Discoveries by John Booth - Book

So successful has been Dr. John Booth's series of conjuring volumes beginning with Psychic Paradoxes in 1984 that a fifth book, Conjurians' Discoveries, was inevitable. Sometimes controversial, always informative, and written with the cooperation of the foremost performers and thinkers in magic today, he brings a distinctive style of writing to many subjects seldom discussed. Thus a new Booth book is always an event.In 20 chapters and scores of photographs and illustrations, many new discoveries in tricks, secrets, creativity and history appear. The reader of this book finds documentation for the true creator of the word 'escapologist', and for the strange case and claims for the first aerial flight in Australia, 24-hours before Houdini's. Why could Thurston amaze audiences world-wide with his brilliant manipulationcard act even though his little trick book, sold publicly everywhere,exposed most of it? Stand-up performers will relish secrets here for one of thefinest, simplest Cards-to