Sorcerer's Apprentice (eBook)

An Incredible Journey into the World of India's Godmen

Tahir Shah (Autor)

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2011
336 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-131-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Sorcerers Apprentice is the amazing story of Shahs apprenticeship to one of Indias master conjurers, Hakim Feroze, and his initiation into the brotherhood of Indian godmen. Told with self-deprecating wit, panache, and an eye for the outlandish, it is an account of a magical journey across India. Feroze teaches the author the basics of his craft, such as sleights of hand, immersing his hands in boiling oil and lead, andAarons old trick from the Bibleturning a rod into a serpent. To complete his training and prove himself, he is sent on a quest to discover the ways illusion is manifested in every corner of the subcontinent. Saddled with a hilarious sidekick and guide he calls the Trickster, Shah travels from Calcutta to Madras, from Bangalore to Bombay. Even as he recounts the most miraculous and bizarre feats of the sadhus, sages, sorcerers, avatars, fortune- tellers, healers, hypnotists, and humbugs whom he encounters, he revealsand admiresthe imagination and resourcefulness ordinary Indians deploy in order to survive. In this incredible book, Tahir Shah lifts the veil on the Easts most puzzling miracles and exposes a side of India that most never imagine exists.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: Apprenticeship • august 11th • bonded labour • books on apprenticeships • books on calcuttas • books on cambridges • books on cutlets • books on disciples • books on fish heads • books on greeces • books on hafizs • books on illusionists books • books on illusions • books on jans • books on ladakhs • books on magicians • books on mental exercises • books on occult powers • books on possums • books on sadhus • books on ultrasounds • books on wood pulps • Calcutta • callous • Cambridge • Conjuring • conjury • cutlet • dark passages • date approx • disciple • Doris Lessing • enrapturing • feroze • fish heads • foreseeing • Gendercide • Greece • Hafiz • Hakim • heartily • hilarious episodes • Iberia • Illusionists • illusions • India • indias • Insider information • instils • inveigling • jans • Ladakh • magician • mahout • mental exercises • midnight oil • occult powers • Orissa • Parsi • PERFORM • performing • pg 143 • pg 91 • Polymath • possums • prescribes • pupil sorcerers • Sadhus • sadistic master • Skeleton • slimed • throughout india • Trickster • trip thru • Ultrasound • unnerving • Varanasi • vibrant country • westerners • wood pulp
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-131-6 / 1628721316
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-131-7 / 9781628721317