A Wizard´s Wanderings
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Holden, John Watkins) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from A Wizard´s Wanderings: From China to Peru Alexandre Dumas, père, laid down the dictum that ´prefaces were for failures.´ However that may be, I fear it is not possible to dispense with one here, as, though I am pretty well known in the professional world, I fear the general reading public on first glancing at these pages would naturally ask: ´Who the dickens is Dr. Holden?´ Well, if you please, I was born very young on theist February, 1844, at the good old city of Worcester, and christened there on the following Palm Sunday, which might possibly account for my early love of ´Palming, or Sleight-of-hand!´ As my youthful record is on a par almost with that of the hero in ´A Bad Boy´s Diary,´ I think I had better charitably draw the line here and pass it over. At sixteen, I found myself under fire, fighting under a foreign flag for some quixotic craze they called Liberty, with two other Englishmen only, instead 01 returning to England and entering Her Majesty´s Navy, as my pater, who was Lord Lieutenant of his county and Member of Parliament, had intended me to do. Estranged from my family, I determined to be independent of everybody, and thus early commenced my Bohemian life. It was whilst travelling through Morocco that I first gave any serious thoughts to the ´Magic Art.´ At Castillejos, my travelling companion, a Hungarian Count, and myself, arranged to join a famous conjurer, one Sed Hamlah, and make the grand tour through some outlandish parts of Africa, calling ourselves the ´Cold Hot Iron Doctors.´ The natives believe in burning the part afflicted with pain to effect a cure, so we simply took with us a stock of lunar caustic and, shall I add ´brass.´ Through Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, Tripoli, Egypt Proper, Nubia, Darfur, &c., we travelled, meeting with adventures such as I fancy few other Englishmen have gone through. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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