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´Nate is one of my favorite magicians in the world. This is a beautiful, original book from a beautiful and original mind´ Derren Brown

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An extraordinary memoir about finding wonder in everyday life, from magician Nate Staniforth.

´Nate is one of my favorite magicians in the world. This is a beautiful, original book from a beautiful and original mind´ Derren Brown

Nate Staniforth has spent most of his life and all of his professional career trying to understand wonder--what it is, where to find it, and how to share it with others. He became a magician because he learned at a young age that magic tricks don´t have to be frivolous. Magic doesn´t have to be about sequins and smoke machines--rather, it can create a moment of genuine astonishment.
But after years on the road as a professional magician, crisscrossing the country and performing four or five nights a week, every week, Nate was disillusioned, burned out, and ready to quit. Instead, he went to India in search of magic. Here Is Real Magic follows Nate Staniforth´s evolution from an obsessed young magician to a broken wanderer and back again. It tells the story of his rediscovery of astonishment--and the importance of wonder in everyday life--during his trip to the slums of India, where he infiltrated a three-thousand-year-old clan of street magicians. Here Is Real Magic is a call to all of us--to welcome awe back into our lives, to marvel in the everyday, and to seek magic all around us.

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Nate is one of my favorite magicians in the world. This is a beautiful, original book from a beautiful and original mind Derren Brown

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Nate Staniforth is a magician, performer, writer, traveler, and former host of the Discovery Channel´s international hit TV show Breaking Magic. For over a decade, Nate has toured the U.S. as one of the busiest working magicians in the country and shared the philosophical underpinnings of his work through both a TEDx Talk and a lecture at the world-famous Oxford Union. He lives in Iowa City.

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