 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name's David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at the sophisticated sorcerer from Alan Shaxton. Alan Shaxton was a magician out in Britain He was born in 1933. He died in 2012. He lived 79 years. This book was started Alan Shaxton began to write it. It was then lost and unknown and then two gentlemen Steve Short and Scott Penrose Picked it up and completed the book Steve Short finished the biography part of the book, which is at the beginning and Scott Penrose completed the magic section Which is the last part of the book if you'd like to see a little clip about Alan's life and his magic. This is it Another piece of bait gold plate There's a young lady down here. Do you go fishing? Hey, you've got a fish on your lap. Don't worry about you got catching food. Don't join your friends today. That's science That's magic Hey I'm not tall All right, so Alan Shaxton. He was a professional magician. He was the former president of the magic circle He specialized in cabaret performances and he was billed as one of England's foremost magicians The magic circle gave Shaxton its highest award of the masculine for services to British magic his television appearances have been seen by millions He's cruise the world in cabaret and some of the world's finest luxury liners He's entertained on four different occasions at Buckingham Palace He was friend and confident and magic buddy to just one of the biggest legends in magic Robert Harbin And he inherited a lot of Harbin's effects after his own death Alan Shaxton wrote two other books. He wrote my kind of magic and practical sorcery Nobody knew he was writing this book Nobody knew he was writing a book that would contain his autobiography Alan liked those kind of magic books He had a lot of those books where the magician not only explained his magic But also wrote about himself and so Alan wanted to do that in his last book wanted to do that in his former years Nobody knew who was writing this book He passed away and then his grandson was going through some of his computer files and found it So his grandson Jack then contacted some people who thought they could complete this book and put it back together So the first 100 pages of this book are his autobiography The first 100 pages are his life contains just his career and a lot of photographs about him and the remainder of the book are Tricks from his personal repertoire. So yes, a lot of these tricks are staged magic A lot of these tricks are more suited to an age and era that is long since gone But that's not the reason you would get this book The reason you would get this book is to honor the man the legacy to learn about his life and to Extrapolate the gems and the jewels that are in this that you can take then and apply to your own magic The book is really well-bound and has very clear pictures And it is an insight and enjoyable read to learn about his life and magic and if you'd like to learn more about this You can visit Alan Shaxon book calm So that is it for this review of the sophisticated sorcerer by Alan Shaxon And if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it one of your favorite Murphy's Magic suppliers. Thanks. Bye