Houdini on Magic

Houdini on MagicHarry Houdinis fame is secure as the greatest magician of modern times. Many of his fabulous escapes, indeed, now sound more like legend than history, yet they really happened. He 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 escaped easily. This book is Houdinis own account

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Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs

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The larger divisions of the book concern the ancestry of Stradivari

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as a full-blooded Indian boy learned the reticent manners and stoical ways of patience and bravery expected of every young warrior in the 1870's and 1880's

The bloody conflict and the horrible famine of Madrid were witnessed by Goya himself