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The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician

By Gail Jarrow

Book information

Publisher
Astra Publishing House
Year
2012
ISBN
9781629791708, 9781590788653, 2011940465
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (12921336 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-09 01:46:59
Biography & Autobiography; History; Juvenile Nonfi

Description

Presenting the amazing Harry Kellar: the first magician to receive international fame and the model for the Wizard of Oz! In this illustrated biography of the most well-known illusionist at the turn of the twentieth century, Author Gail Jarrow follows Kellar from a magician's assistant traveling and performing across the United States during the Civil War to an international superstar with a show of his own, entertaining emperors, kings, and presidents.   Jarrow uses Kellar's own words and images—his amazing four-color promotional posters—to tell his riveting story in this first Kellar biography for young readers. And she reveals the science behind Kellar's illusions and explores nineteenth-century entertainment and transportation as well as the history of magic, spiritualism, and séances.

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