A Magician's Tour

The memoir of Harry Kellar, America's leading stage magician before Thurston, describing his tours up and down and round about the world. This scan is an 1890 printing.

What’s inside

1. Start in life
2. The bull fight and a triumphal tour through Mexico
3. In the role of prophet
4. Through South America and around the Horn
5. Shipwreck and reverses
6. First bow in the colonies
7. Dining with the maharajah
8. Boar hunt in Java
9. The city of Shanghai
10. At the court of Ava
11. The spiritualist excitement
12. In the Punjab and Bombay
13. The jugglers of India
14. In Africa, where hard luck turns
15. Before Her Majesty
16. Kimberley diamond fields
17. A substitute for jails
18. Chinese Gordon
19. Among the kangaroos
20. “Johnny Newsky”
21. The elephant hunt
22. In New York and Philadelphia
23. Kellar and spiritualism
24. At his old home

Harry Kellar, 1886. Complete 218-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.