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Publisher: Arcade Books
Published: Dec 1969
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
Retail Price: $14.95
Pages: 336
"Tahir Shah has a genius for surreal travelling, finding—or creating—situations and people."—Doris Lessing
Sorcerer's Apprentice is the amazing story of Shah's apprenticeship to one of India's master conjurers, Hakim Feroze, and his initiation into the brotherhood of Indian godmen. Told with self-deprecating wit, panache, and an eye for the outlandish, it is an account of a magical journey across India. Feroze teaches the author the basics of his craft, such as sleights of hand, immersing his hands in boiling oil and lead, and—Aaron's old trick from the Bible—turning a rod into a serpent.