The History of Torture

195 Pages·2014·2.03 MB·English

by  Daniel P. Mannix

Table of Contents
The History of Torture
Publishing Information
Biography
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
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The History of Torture
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Daniel P Mannix
Publishing Information The History of Torture by Daniel P Mannix
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Biography
Daniel P Mannix IV
Daniel Pratt Mannix IV (Oct 27, 1911 – January 29, 1997) became best
known as an American author and journalist. Mannix’s works include the 1958
book Those About to Die, which remained in continuous print for three decades,
and the 1967 novel The Fox and the Hound which was adapted into an animated
film by Walt Disney Productions. His novel Drifter was a Newberry Medal
Nominee.
Childhood
“Daniel Pratt Mannix 4th’s early life might have come right out of True
Adventure magazine, and it still would have been hard to believe.” 2/2/1997,
Philadelphia Inquirer
As a child and young man, Daniel P Mannix spent a lot of time at his
grandparents’ farm outside Philadelphia while his naval father was away on
postings accompanied by his wife, Jule Junker Mannix. Daniel began to keep
and raise various wild animals. The cost of feeding these animals led Daniel to
write his first book, The Back-Yard Zoo.
Career
Mannix life was filled with many and exciting chapters; it was remarkably
different from other writers of his generation. His career included times as a side
show performer, magician, trainer of eagles and film maker. His life became not
what his family planned when he was born in Bryn Mawr. The son, grandson
and great-grandson of Navy men, he was assumed to have saltwater in his veins,
and duly enrolled at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., in 1930. But he
quickly moved in 1931 to the University of Pennsylvania, while postponing his
interest in zoology for a degree in journalism. During World War II, Navy
lieutenant Mannix was with the Photo-Science Laboratory in Washington, D. C.
The Great Zadma was a stage name Mannix used as a magician. He also
entertained as a sword swallower and fire eater in a traveling carnival sideshow.
Magazine articles about these experiences, co-written with his wife, became very
popular in 1944 and 1945 and these accounts of carnival life are to be found in
the book, Step Right Up, reprinted in 1964 as Memoirs of a Sword Swallower. At
times Mannix was a professional hunter, a collector of wildlife for zoos and
circuses, and a bird trainer. In 1956 Mannix showed his many talents by writing,
producing, directing, acting in, training birds and photographing for a short film
Universal Color Parade: Parrot Jungle.
An an author Mannix covered a wide variety of subject matter. His more
than 25 books ranged from fictional animal stories for children, the natural
history of animals, and adventurous accounts about hunting big game to
sensational adult non-fiction topics such as a biography of the occultist Aleister
Crowley, sympathetic accounts of carnival performers and sideshow freaks, and
works describing, among other things, the Hellfire Club, the Atlantic slave trade,
the history of torture, and the Roman games. His output of essays and articles
was extensive. In 1983, Mannix edited The Old Navy: The Glorious Heritage of
the U. S. Navy, which is his father’s (Rear Admiral Daniel P Mannix III)
autobiographical account of his life and naval career from the Spanish-American
War of 1898 until his retirement in 1928.
An interest in magic led Mannix to become a skilled stage magician, magic
historian, and collector of illusions and apparatus. In 1957, he was one of the 16
members who co-founded the Munchkin Convention of the International Wizard
of Oz Club. He contributed numerous articles to The Baum Bugle, including one
on the subject of the 1902 musical extravaganza, The Wizard of Oz.
Personal Life
Travel and the raising of exotic animals led to an adventurous life for
Mannix and his wife as they traveled around the world until 1950. They had a
son, Daniel Pratt Mannix, V, and a daughter, Julie Mannix Von Zernick. From
1950 on they lived in Pennsylvania. Mannix died at the age of 85 and was
survived by his son and daughter, three grandchildren, and two great-
grandchildren.
Literary Influence
According to Martin M Winkler’s book, Gladiator: Film and History,
Mannix’s 1958 non-fiction book Those About to Die (reprinted in 2001 as The
Way of the Gladiator) was the inspiration for David Franzoni’s screenplay for
the 2000 movie Gladiator.
Bibliography
Books
1934 The Back-Yard Zoo
1936 More Back-Yard Zoo
1953 King of the Sky
1958 The Wildest Game (by Peter Ryhiner as told to Daniel P Mannix)
1958 Those About to Die, or The way of the Gladiator
1959 The Hellfire Club
1959 The Beast: The Scandalous Life of Aleister Crowley
1959 Kiboko
1962 Black Cargoes; A History of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1518-1865 (with
Malcolm Cowley)
1963 The Autobiography of Daniel Mannix, My Life with All Creatures
Great and Small
1963 The History of Torture
1964 The Father of the Wizard of Oz
1965 The Outcasts
1967 A Sporting Chance: Unusual Methods of Hunting
1967 The Fox and the Hound (with illustrator John Schoenherr)
1967 The Last Eagle (with illustrator Russell Peterson)
1968 The Killers, The Story of a Fighting Cock and Wild Hawk
1969 Troubled Waters: The Story of a Fish, a Stream and a Pond (with
illustrator Patricia Collins)
1971 The Healer
1974 Drifter
1975 The Secret of the Elms
1976 Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others
1978 The Wolves of Paris
1983 The Old Navy: The Glorious Heritage of the U. S. Navy, Recounted
through the Journals of an American Patriot by Rear Admiral Daniel P Mannix,
3rd, as edited by Daniel P Mannix 4th
Magazine Articles
(Some of these were co-written with Jule Junker Mannix)
• “Raiders of the Night” in St. Nicholas Magazine, August, 1930
• “Two Texas Goblins” in St. Nicholas Magazine, June, 1933)
• “Gladiators of the Gods” in The Saturday Evening Post, May 25, 1935
• “Hunting Dragons with an Eagle” in The Saturday Evening Post, January
18, 1941
• “Death on Swift Wings” in The Saturday Evening Post, November 8,
1941
• “We’re in the Money” in The Saturday Evening Post, January 16, 1943
• “How to Swallow a Sword” by The Great Zadma as told to Jule Junker
Mannix in Collier’s Magazine, July 22, 1994; reprinted in Collier’s
December 2, 1944; reprinted in Reader’s Digest, March 1945
• “Fire-eating is Fun” by The Great Zadma in Pocket Book Weekly,
February 3, 1945
• “Tracked by Bloodhounds” in The Saturday Evening Post, April 9, 1949
• “The Father of The Wizard of Oz” in American Heritage, December, 1964
Filmography
1953 King of the Sky (documentary short)
1958 Universal Color Parade: Parrot Jungle
1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro