Böcker av Charlie Young

"This is a literary gut punch. It is the great Houdini book the world has been waiting for. A perfect escape." John Kelly, Detroit Free Press Houdini's Last Handcuffs weaves a mesmerizing blend of historical fiction and fantasy in 1950s Manhattan. On the 30th anniversary of Houdini's death, three young friends, gifted a mystical Ouija Board by the enigmatic writer Walter Gibson, find themselves thrust into a world of wonder.While the adults attempt to reach Houdini in a Séance at his former residence, the children unknowingly call upon the great magician, not through the Ouija board or séance but via an enigmatic pair of handcuffs from their father's magic collection.Houdini, in dire need of their aid, reveals a hidden notebook filled with scientific formulas coveted by both benevolent and malevolent secret circles. This notebook is a puzzle, locked behind Houdini's cryptic code.The unexpected unfolds, setting off a thrilling chase, where the pursuit of Houdini's notebook holds the key to secrets, mystique, and adventure. Houdini's Last Handcuffs is a riveting journey into a world where magic meets science, tantalizing readers with every twist and turn.

Korean Naturalists is a collection of natural history vignettes focused on Korean nature. Each chapter portrays a natural historian who in some way has contributed to our present understanding of nature on the Korean peninsula, north and south. The book is also a story of Korean history, as human history and nature are inseparable. The chapters follow a pattern of science, biography and historical events that shaped the progress of natural history in Korea, from the earliest natural historian, Shin Saimdang in the sixteenth century, to Park Chun Hee in the 1960s. Korean natural history is treated in a western sense, and many of the players are western. However, the Koreans themselves are at the center of the accounts, as it is, and remains, a uniquely Korean story.Entomology, ornithology, botany, ichthyology and other disciplines are included as each figure portrays their own field and passion of natural history, from Roy Chapman Andrews on Siberian Tigers to Seok Ju-myung on butterfly variation. The collection of figures is not the author's preference of east or west, but rather, those who made their mark on Korean natural history.