Title : The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Tahir Shah - book
Summary :
India is a land of miracles, where "holy men" and mystics mesmerize their audiences with astonishing magic tricks. In major cities and remote villages alike, these earthly incarnations of the deity transform wands into snakes, drink acid, eat glass, hibernate, and even practice levitation.
Born in 1966, Tahir Shah is an ethnologist already well-known for his work on the Near East, Central Asia, South America, and Africa. As a child in the English countryside, he learned the first secrets of illusionism from an Indian magician. More than twenty years later, he set out in search of this magician, the traditional guardian of the tomb of his great-grandfather, a renowned Afghan warlord.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the story of this quest and the author's initiation into the world of India's "holy men," sadhus , magi, and sages, throughout a journey that took him from Calcutta to Madras, and from Bangalore to Bombay, in search of the magical, unusual, and secret world that lies behind modern India.
- EAN: 9782253155195
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