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Author : Daniel Pratt Mannix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Sword Swallower written by Daniel Pratt Mannix and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Danniel P Mannix
Publisher : eNet Press
ISBN 13 : 1618867482
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Step Right Up! written by Danniel P Mannix and published by eNet Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel P. Mannix's father and grandfather were distinguished navel officers who expected Daniel to keep up the family tradition. Daniel tried, he really did, but when all those attempting to mold him into a respectable cadet eventually gave up, well, what else can a navel academy flunkie do — TA DA! Join a carnival, of course. Inspired by the perseverance, bold imagination, and showmanship of the performers, Daniel was soon eating flaming torches, swallowing swords and neon lights, walking on knives, assisting as a mentalist, and writing stories about all he experienced. From the pen of a man who lived the life and loved and respected carnival folk, Step Right Up! will take the reader on a comprehensive and highly entertaining excursion into the vanishing world of sideshow performers. Fire-eating and sword swallowing are not tricks, ladies and gentlemen. Allow the talented Daniel P Mannix to explain!
Author : Harry Houdini
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1602060770
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Miracle Mongers and Their Methods written by Harry Houdini and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magicians debunking charlatans and revealing secrets of the trade: it's not something that Penn and Teller or James "The Amazing" Randi invented. The legendary Harry Houdini was doing the same thing a century ago, to popular acclaim. In this 1920 book, the master showman-and surprisingly entertaining writer-uncovers the mysteries behind such extraordinary feats as fire-eating, sword-swallowing, snake-charmers, and strong men. More a simple expose of stage trickery, though, this is a brisk history of such oddities throughout history and around the world, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, from the culture of the Native Americans to that of Japan. This is a fascinating work of the strange and seemingly inexplicable made plain and understandable. Hungarian-American magician and professional skeptic EHRICH WEISS (1874-1926)-aka Harry Houdini, "Handcuff King and Jail Breaker"-also wrote Magical Rope Ties and Escapes (1920) and A Magician Among the Spirits (1924).
Author : Mary Cappello
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459607619
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Swallow written by Mary Cappello and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American half-dollar. A beaded crucifix. Tooth roots shaped like a tiny pair of pants. A padlock. Scads of peanut kernels and scores of safety pins. A metallic letter Z. A toy goat and tin steering wheel. A Perfect Attendance Pin. One of the most popular attractions in Philadelphia's world-famous Mtter Museum is the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection; a beguiling set of drawers filled with thousands of items that had been swallowed or inhaled, then extracted nonsurgically by a pioneering laryngologist using rigid instruments of his own design. How do people's mouths, lungs, and stomachs end up filled with inedible things, and what do they become once arranged in Jackson's aura-laden cabinet? What drove Dr. Chevalier Jackson's peculiar obsession not only with removing foreign bodies from people's upper torsos but also with saving and cataloging the items that he retrieved? Animating the space between interest and terror, curiosity and dread, award-winning author Mary Cappello explores what seems beyond understanding; the physiology of the human swallow, and the poignant and baffling psychology that compels people to ingest non-nutritive things. On a quest to restore the narratives that haunt Jackson's uncanny collection, she discovers that all things are secretly edible. Combining original research with a sympathetic and evocative sensibility, Cappello uncovers a history of racism and violence, of forced ingestion and hysteria, of class and poverty that left children to bank their family's last quarters in their mouths. Here, the seemingly disparate but equally marvelous worlds of the circus and the medical amphitheater meet in characters ranging from sword swallowers and women who lunched on hardware to the sensitive, bullied boy who grew up to be the father of endoscopy.
Author : Albert Allis Hopkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Magic written by Albert Allis Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Goulart
Publisher : New York : Dell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (281 download)
Download or read book The Sword Swallower written by Ron Goulart and published by New York : Dell. This book was released on 1970 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George R. R. Martin
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0399593772
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Book of Swords written by George R. R. Martin and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New epic fantasy in the grand tradition—including a never-before-published Song of Ice and Fire story by George R. R. Martin! Fantasy fiction has produced some of the most unforgettable heroes ever conjured onto the page: Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian, Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melniboné, Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Classic characters like these made sword and sorcery a storytelling sensation, a cornerstone of fantasy fiction—and an inspiration for a new generation of writers, spinning their own outsize tales of magic and swashbuckling adventure. Now, in The Book of Swords, acclaimed editor and bestselling author Gardner Dozois presents an all-new anthology of original epic tales by a stellar cast of award-winning modern masters—many of them set in their authors’ best-loved worlds. Join today’s finest tellers of fantastic tales, including George R. R. Martin, K. J. Parker, Robin Hobb, Scott Lynch, Ken Liu, C. J. Cherryh, Daniel Abraham, Lavie Tidhar, Ellen Kushner, and more on action-packed journeys into the outer realms of dark enchantment and intrepid derring-do, featuring a stunning assortment of fearless swordsmen and warrior women who face down danger and death at every turn with courage, cunning, and cold steel. FEATURING SIXTEEN ALL-NEW STORIES: “The Best Man Wins” by K. J. Parker “Her Father’s Sword” by Robin Hobb “The Hidden Girl” by Ken Liu “The Sword of Destiny” by Matthew Hughes “‘I Am a Handsome Man,’ Said Apollo Crow” by Kate Elliott “The Triumph of Virtue” by Walter Jon Williams “The Mocking Tower” by Daniel Abraham “Hrunting” by C. J. Cherryh “A Long, Cold Trail” by Garth Nix “When I Was a Highwayman” by Ellen Kushner “The Smoke of Gold Is Glory” by Scott Lynch “The Colgrid Conundrum” by Rich Larson “The King’s Evil” by Elizabeth Bear “Waterfalling” by Lavie Tidhar “The Sword Tyraste” by Cecelia Holland “The Sons of the Dragon” by George R. R. Martin And an introduction by Gardner Dozois “When fine writer and expert editor [Gardner] Dozois beckons, authors deliver—and this surely will be one of the year’s essential anthologies.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author : Daniel Pratt Mannix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Sword-swallower written by Daniel Pratt Mannix and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Madame Chinchilla
Publisher : Isadore Press at Triangle Tattoo Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780960260065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Electric Tattooing by Women 1900-2003 written by Madame Chinchilla and published by Isadore Press at Triangle Tattoo Museum. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Mannix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Step Right Up written by Dan Mannix and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael A. Martin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416506772
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Titan #1: Taking Wing written by Michael A. Martin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Riker, former first officer of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation, takes command of the new USS Titan in this white-knuckled adventure perfect for longtime and new Star Trek fans. After almost a decade of strife against foes such as the Borg, the Cardassians, the Klingons, and the Dominion, the United Federation of Planets is at the dawn of a new era. Starfleet is renewing its mission of peaceful exploration, diplomacy, and the expansion of knowledge. Among the starships spearheading that endeavor is the USS Titan, commanded by Captain William T. Riker and manned by the most biologically varied and culturally diverse crew in Starfleet history. But their mission does not begin according to plan. In the wake of Star Trek: Nemesis, Praetor Shinzon, slayer of the Romulan Senate, is dead. The power vacuum created by his demise has put the Romulan Star Empire, longtime adversary of the Federation, at the brink of civil war. Competing factions now vie for control of their fragmenting civilization, and if the empire should fall, that entire area of the galaxy may destabilize. To restore order to the region, Titan’s long-anticipated mission of exploration is delayed as Starfleet assigns Riker to set up power-sharing talks among the Romulan factions. But even as the first tentative steps are taken toward building a new Romulus, the remnants of the Tal Shiar, the dreaded Romulan intelligence service, are regrouping behind the scenes for a power play of their own. With no other help available, Riker and the Titan crew become the last hope to prevent the quadrant from falling into chaos.
Author : Meredith Talusan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525561315
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Fairest written by Meredith Talusan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction "Talusan sails past the conventions of trans and immigrant memoirs." --The New York Times Book Review "A ball of light hurled into the dark undertow of migration and survival." --Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous A singular, beautifully written coming-of-age memoir of a Filipino boy with albinism whose story travels from an immigrant childhood to Harvard to a gender transition and illuminates the illusions of race, disability, and gender Fairest is a memoir about a precocious boy with albinism, a "sun child" from a rural Philippine village, who would grow up to become a woman in America. Coping with the strain of parental neglect and the elusive promise of U.S. citizenship, Talusan found childhood comfort from her devoted grandmother, a grounding force as she was treated by others with special preference or public curiosity. As an immigrant to the United States, Talusan came to be perceived as white. An academic scholarship to Harvard provided access to elite circles of privilege but required Talusan to navigate through the complex spheres of race, class, sexuality, and her place within the gay community. She emerged as an artist and an activist questioning the boundaries of gender. Talusan realized she did not want to be confined to a prescribed role as a man, and transitioned to become a woman, despite the risk of losing a man she deeply loved. Throughout her journey, Talusan shares poignant and powerful episodes of desirability and love that will remind readers of works such as Call Me By Your Name and Giovanni's Room. Her evocative reflections will shift our own perceptions of love, identity, gender, and the fairness of life.
Author : Fred Saberhagen
Publisher : JSS Literary Productions, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0979625793
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (796 download)
Download or read book The Second Book of Lost Swords written by Fred Saberhagen and published by JSS Literary Productions, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long ago, the gods forged Twelve Swords of Power and threw them on the gameboard of life to watch men scramble. But they had forged too well: the Swords could kill the gods themselves. Now, the gods gone, the Swords are scattered across the land, some held by those of good heart, and some by evildoers. One is held by Arnfinn, a country boy who knows nothing of Sightblinder’s power: to make the viewer see that which he most desires—or most fears. Sightblinder must be used, if Ben of Purkinje is to rescue Prince Mark from the hell in which he lies captive, prisoner of the horrifying ageless Ancient One.
Author : Henri Matisse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781858410517
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Henri Matisse written by Henri Matisse and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Pratt Manix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Sword Swallower written by Daniel Pratt Manix and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Swalllow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849700443
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Garro: Legion of One written by James Swalllow and published by . This book was released on 2011-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy Harmon
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781533134134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Bird and the Sword written by Amy Harmon and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Swallow, daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them 'til they've time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, 'til the hour. You won't speak and you won't tell, you won't call on heaven or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, daughter. Stay alive.' The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn't speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would trade his soul and lose his son to the sky. My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother's words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free. But freedom will require escape, and I'm a prisoner of my mother's curse and my father's greed. I can't speak or make a sound, and I can't wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love ... a bird?"--Back cover.
