Here Is Real Magic

A Magician's Search for Wonder in the Modern World

De: Nate Staniforth

Narrado por: Nate Staniforth

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

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 3,000-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.

©2018 Nate Staniforth (P)2018 Audible, Ltd

trafficking in wonder

Thouse who have fallen down the rabbit hole of magic love the story of others in that brotherhood. I alway find it deeply amusing when the author speaks my name within there book. My last name is Marquette. Thank you Nate for the question.

Why Magic Matters

A worthy dive into why magic matters.

His honest search is revelatory in terms of our purpose in creating a moment of astonishment.

Great insight into a traveling magician’s life

This was a well written book, discussing the journey of a magician, including the highlights and low lights of work on the road!

Title lives up to the book

Never read anything like this. If you love wonder, if you see through the fabric of the world, this book will let you know that you are not alone. One of the best! Thanks so much Nate.

Redefines what magic is for me

And turns it into a powerful experience about life. No pun intended but it is a magical book that moved me deeply. Thank you Nate.