Teach Yourself Magic

by Anthony Galvin

Make the secrets of magic performance your own! Celebrity Street magicians like David Blaine have popularized the age-old art of illusionism. Written by a member of The Magic Circle, Teach Yourself Magic covers the tricks and skills you need to learn as a budding magician and offers information you can use as you gain experience to turn your hobby into a part-time moneymaker. You’ll learn all there is to know about creating illusions with everyday objects and performing tricks they would have never thought possible.

191 pages, Paperback

First published August 26, 2005

About the author

Anthony Galvin trained as a physicist before working for a decade as a crime journalist for a daily paper in Europe's toughest city. Now he travels the world performing magic, ventriloquism and hypnotism.

He has worked as a hotel manager, radio presenter, Arctic skidoo driver, and many other jobs. He briefly held the world record for the longest public lecture (at sixty two hours) and spends every winter in the Arctic.

In his spare time he enjoys martial arts, hill-walking, and competitive public speaking.

He writes factual books under his own name, and fiction under a variety of pen names, including Jim Gallows and Dean Carson.