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Mar 07 '09	New App: $.99, v1.0

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Indian Conjuring

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“Indian Conjuring” by L. H. Branson is as the title suggests a work on the magic and magicians of India. The book's first paragraph gives a good sense of its contents:

“Since the world began Magic and wizardy seem to have held a great fascination for mankind, an example being in the story of the Witch of Endor. That this tendency has in no wise altered is clear from the popularity of conjurors, illusionists, and so called magicians who still, be it East or West, attract an audience so easily and so surely. This little volume is written in the hopes that it may prove of interest to the thousands who reside in India, and those other thousands who, visiting its coral shores from time to time, often discuss in wondering amazement how the Indian conjuror performs his tricks. It is also written to uphold the reputation of the Western conjuror against the spurious ascendancy held by his Eastern confrere.”

We note that this book was first published in 1922. It contains some generalizations about race and nationality which modern readers might find offensive. Despite this, we believe this book is of value for the detailed descriptions (often with accompanying pictures) of many interesting magic tricks performed by Indian magicians at the time of writing.

HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can read through chapter text with the following commands:
+Single-tap the screen to page-down.
+Double-tap the screen to page-up.
+Scroll up or down to make finer adjustmests to your position in a chapter's text.
+Tap the iPhone/iPod status bar to move to the beginning of a chapter.

The eBook application allows you to change the text's font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

The application keeps track of your current position in the text as you read and saves this position when you close the application. Upon relaunching the application, you can easily resume reading at the position of this virtual bookmark.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update