Ionia: Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked

Im Jahr 1910 war Ionia, die Göttin des Mysteriums, die bekannteste Zauberin ihrer Zeit. Mit 22 Jahren ging sie mit einer großen Illusionsshow auf Tournee durch Europa. Es war eine aufwendige Theaterproduktion mit mehreren Darstellern, exotischen Tieren, maßgefertigten Kulissen und bunten Lithografieplakaten. Doch 1913, nach ein paar Jahren voller Auftritte und begeisterter Kritiken, verschwand sie spurlos.

Wer war Ionia? Wo ist sie hingegangen? Warum war sie in Russland?

Clementines Geschichte ist eine Collage aus spannenden Geheimnissen. Entdecke ihre dramatische Verwandlung von der Magierin Ionia zur Prinzessin Clementine Eristavi Tchitcherine. Du hast den Schlüssel dazu. Lies dieses Buch. Entdecke ihre Geheimnisse.

Das einzige Buch mit der kompletten Geschichte von Ionia und all denen, die ihr nahestanden.

• Julia Ferrett – Illusionistin Okita
• Charles de Vere – Meistermagier und Erfinder
• Clementine de Vere – Ionia
• Herman Weedon – Amerikanischer Löwenbändiger
• Frank Weedon – Sohn von Clementine und Herman
• Houdini und Charles de Vere
• Elise de Vere – Pariser Kabarett-Sensation
• Frank Godsol – amerikanischer Millionär
• Vladimir Eristavi Tchitherine – Prinz

Sie alle hätten ihr eigenes Buch verdient, aber es gibt noch mehr.

• Steindruck – ausführlich erklärt
• Die Belle Epoque in Paris – Clementines Model-Fotos
• Ionias Reiseplan und Kritiken
• Ionias Bärenangriff – Lies das Gerichtsprotokoll
• Ionia-Poster – Sieh dir alle elf bekannten Poster an
• Clementines Aktivitäten in Paris
• Die FBI-Akten
• Clementine in Amerika
• Das russische Dossier – Erfahre mehr über Clementines Zeit in Russland
• Eine zweite Okita – Wer war diese Reinkarnation?
• Clementines exklusive und geheime Villa an der französischen Riviera.

All das und noch viel mehr auf 330 Seiten mit über 180 Bildern. Die meisten dieser Bilder wurden seit über 100 Jahren nicht mehr gesehen.

"Charles Greene has written an imaginative, unbelievable story about a beautiful music hall magician, famous wizards, a performing bear, spies, disappearing people, handsome suitors, and an elegant, mysterious European princess. The best part is that it all really happened. The tale of Ionia is one of the glories of magic history, a story so incredible that-as Charles so skillfully demonstrates-it had to be true. It's a great book, full of surprises."
- Jim Steinmeyer

"From my perspective Ionia is a total home run. It is absolutely gorgeous. My heartiest congratulations to you!!!"
- Larry Haas

"Charles Greene III has written an absorbing book about an extraordinary and largely forgotten personality in magic. I learned much from it and recommend it to anyone interested not just in the history of the magic but the undocumented part that female magicians have played in it. In the book, Greene has added an amazing amount of illustrative material. There are illustrations and photos on virtually every page, and they really help build an understanding of the people and the era. There is also an excellent chapter explaining the development of the printing process used to produce Ionia's striking posters. This thoughtful structuring of information makes it the best laid out book on the history of magic that I've read."
- David Britland, review for Genii magazine

"I'm very proud to have 'Ionia - Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked" in my International Museum and Library of the Conjuring Arts. Charles combined his expert knowledge of magic posters with two decades of passionate pursuit to reveal Ionia's complete story. In this beautifully designed book, Charles tells the long overdue history of one of magic's great illusionists, Ionia - Queen of Mystery. This book is important as it increases the long overdue visibility and status of women in magic."
- David Copperfield

"The Ionia book is a beautiful work. I was impressed by the quality of the publication and the illustrations. What thorough historical research you did- bravo. Keep up the magical work, and best wishes in all your future projects."
- Philippe Petit

"Collecting all of this data on Ionia is like having a thousand puzzle pieces in a box. Until you put the pieces together, you really have no idea what the picture looks like. And now, at long last, after years of rearranging those puzzle pieces, they finally make sense, Charles has presented us all with a gift."
- Michael Caveney

"For over a hundred years, all we knew of Ionia came from the gorgeous two-dimensional posters of her at work. Now Charles Greene III adds a remarkable and thoroughly unexpected third dimension by finally unveiling her tumultuous, globe-trotting life. Greene has deciphered her multiple transformations from daughter in a huge family of colorful performers to working magician (and bear tamer!) to Russian princess to Paris salon doyenne to - well - an enigma almost lost to time. It's a terrific act of detective work, a spectacular act of production."
- Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil

"Ionia - Magician Princess Secrets Unlocked brings together rare programs, tour plans, unique photographs, archived Russian, Belgian and Russian, Belgian and American government documents and all known posters of Posters of lonia, who lived from 1883 to 1973. The book is exciting and entertaining, with about 180 illustrations. At the same time, the book is a kind of homage to women in the art of magic. The author lists more than 400 names of other women magicians. Conclusion: A wonderful, exciting, well researched biography about an extraordinary magician in a beautiful book form. Highly recommended."
- Wittus Witt