UK Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 09430707. Having been fascinated with magic since he was a boy, Alan Davies explores the life of illusionist and stunt performer, Harry Houdini, who became one of the. Finally, of special interest to many readers are Houdini's own accounts of great magicians of history and of Houdini's own battles with spiritualists and fraudulent mediums These are fully-illustrated with diagram sequences that cover every step in the performance. There are also instructions for performing 44 stage tricks, including the coin and glass, the Indian needle trick, and other standards. This book is Houdini's own account of these exploits, supplemented with rare photographs and posters, first-hand material from periodicals and pamphlets, and behind-the-scenes revelations of some of the master's most prized secrets: how he picked locks, how he sawed a girl in half to become twins, how he walked through a brick wall, how a girl can vanish from a sheet of plate glass without trapdoors, hoists, mirrors or other such apparatus. The 52-year-old performed before a packed house in Detroit. Houdini permitted himself to be thrown, manacled, into the Hudson River to be nailed into packing cases and lowered into the ocean to be suspended by the ankles, strait-jacketed, hundreds of feet above the ground-and in every case, he escaped easily. Houdini had made a career out of surviving the impossible, which only made the circumstances of his 1926 death all the more mysterious.
Many of his fabulous escapes, indeed, now sound more like legend than history, yet they really happened! Harry Houdini's fame is secure as the greatest magician of modern times.
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