Part One: Drawing is Deception -- The Magic Mirror -- The Life of M. C. Escher -- An Artist Who Could Not Be Pigeonholed -- Contrasts in Life and work -- How His Work Developed -- Drawing Id Deception -- The Art of the Alhambra -- Explorations into Perspective -- Stamps, Murals, and Bank Notes -- Part Two: worlds that cannot exist -- Creating impossible Worlds -- Craftsmanship -- Simultaneous Worlds -- Wolds that cannot exist -- Marvelous designs of Nature and Mathematics -- An Artist's Approach to infinity