Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc.
Harry Houdini had been a fire-eater and a sideshow performer before he became the most famous escape artist in the world, and Miracle Mongers and Their Methods, published in 1920, is his exposure of the trade. He explains how fire-eaters, heat-resisters and salamanders have survived ovens and molten lead since the seventeenth century, how poison-eaters, sword-swallowers, stone-eaters and human ostriches did their work, how strong men rigged their feats and defied venomous snakes, and he mixes the explanations with the histories of performers he had known or read about. Houdini writes as a professional who respected skill and despised the pretense of supernatural power, and the book is both a manual and a piece of show-business history. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the first chapter free.
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What kind of book is Miracle Mongers and Their Methods?
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