Houdini Master Of Escape
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Author |
: Lace Kendall |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 1960-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0825550750 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780825550751 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Houdini by : Lace Kendall
The life story of the famous magician and escape artist whose feats have become legendary
Author |
: Clinton Cox |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0439442001 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780439442008 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Houdini by : Clinton Cox
This biography of famed magician and illusionist Harry Houdini explores how he carried out his amazing feats and exposes the secrets behind many of Houdini's tricks. The author cites Houdini's brilliance, physical dexterity, and wild imagination as factors that made him a true master of illusion. Photos.
Author |
: Adrien Stoutenburg |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 200 |
Release |
: 1960 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33333219779291 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Houdini, Master of Escape by : Adrien Stoutenburg
Author |
: Robert Kraske |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 76 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0590053744 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780590053747 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harry Houdini, Master of Magic by : Robert Kraske
This biography recounts the life of Harry Houdini from his boyhood through his years as an escape artist and master showman.
Author |
: Zachary Kent |
Publisher |
: Enslow Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0766016196 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780766016194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Harry Houdini by : Zachary Kent
Examines the life and career of Harry Houdini, whose dramatic style, skill at staying in the news, and determination to continually invent new escapes made him one of the most famous magicians of all time.
Author |
: Adrien Stoutenburg |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 1960 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:60014035 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Houdini, Master of Escape [by] Lace Kendall [pseud.]. by : Adrien Stoutenburg
Author |
: Sid Fleischman |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2006-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780060850944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0060850949 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Escape! by : Sid Fleischman
Who was this man who could walk through brick walls and, with a snap of his fingers, vanish elephants? In these pages you will meet the astonishing Houdini—magician, ghost chaser, daredevil, pioneer aviator, and king of escape artists. No jail cell or straitjacket could hold him! He shucked off handcuffs as easily as gloves. In this fresh, witty biography of the most famous bamboozler since Merlin, Sid Fleischman, a former professional magician, enriches his warm homage with insider information and unmaskings. Did Houdini really pick the jailhouse lock to let a fellow circus performer escape? Were his secrets really buried with him? Was he a bum magician, as some rivals claimed? How did he manage to be born in two cities, in two countries, on two continents at the same instant? Here are the stories of how a knockabout kid named Ehrich Weiss, the son of an impoverished rabbi, presto-changoed himself into the legendary Harry Houdini. Here, too, are rare photographs never before seen by the general reader!
Author |
: William Kalush |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 998 |
Release |
: 2008-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847396198 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847396194 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Secret Life of Houdini by : William Kalush
Using exclusive access to newly uncovered archives, Kalush and Sloman reveal the clandestine agreements in which the British and Americans recruited Houdini to be an active secret agent. In exchange for his cooperation, the governments of these two countries facilitated his rise to the top of the world stage. The authors give thrilling accounts of his assignments, such as his participation in early aerial surveillance and his use of his own magic magazine to communicate espionage-related information. After the war, Houdini embarked upon what became his most dangerous mission when he took on the Spiritualist movement. Convinced that Spiritualist mediums were frauds, he became obsessed with exposing them. But the Spiritualists were a powerful adversary. An organized network of fanatics, led by Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, worked relentlessly to orchestrate a campaign that would silence Houdini forever. Grounded in solid research, but as exciting and dramatic as a good thriller, THE SECRET LIFE OF HOUDINI traces the magician's long and circuitous route from struggling vaudevillian to worldwide legend.
Author |
: Michael Teitelbaum |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0021851670 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780021851676 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Houdini by : Michael Teitelbaum
True account of the world famous magician.
Author |
: Adam Begley |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2020-03-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300252255 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300252250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Houdini by : Adam Begley
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an exuberant biography of the world’s greatest escape artist In 1916, the war in Europe having prevented a tour abroad, Harry Houdini wrote a film treatment for a rollicking motion picture. Though the movie was never made, its title, “The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini: The Justly Celebrated Elusive American,” provides a succinct summary of the Master Mystifier’s life. Born Erik Weisz in Budapest in 1874, Houdini grew up an impoverished Jewish immigrant in the Midwest and became world-famous thanks to talent, industry, and ferocious determination. He concealed as a matter of temperament and professional ethics the secrets of his sensational success. Nobody knows how Houdini performed some of his dazzling, death-defying tricks, and nobody knows, finally, why he felt compelled to punish and imprison himself over and over again. Must a self-liberator also be a self-torturer? Tracking the restless Houdini’s wide-ranging exploits, acclaimed biographer Adam Begley asks the essential question: What kind of man was this?