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Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780312368784
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Square Fish
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1429939958
The story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high-wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings that present the detail, daring, and--in two dramatic foldout spreads-- the vertiginous drama of Petit's feat. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers is the winner of the 2004 Caldecott Medal, the winner of the 2004 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Picture Books, and the winner of the 2006 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Children's Video.
Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2003-09-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761328681
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers, a quarter of a mile in the sky.
Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865476519
In 1974, 100,000 people on the ground watched 24-year-old high wire artist Petit make eight crossings between the World Trade Towers. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the story of his walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. 140 illustrations.
Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811228657
“On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau) In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging of the wire, the walker’s first steps, his salute and exercises, and the work of other renowned high-wire artists, Petit offers us a book about the ecstasy of conquering our fears and reaching for the stars.
Author : Mordicai Gerstein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 031236878X
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
Author : Jennifer A. Nielsen
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1338045431
Critically acclaimed author Jennifer A. Nielsen delivers the gripping second installment of her New York Times bestselling epic young adult fantasy. In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller The Traitor's Game, Kestra Dallisor has finally gained possession of the Olden Blade. With the dagger in her control, she attempts to destroy the tyrannical Lord Endrick. But when Kestra fails, the king strips her of her memory, and leaves her weak and uncertain, bound to obey him. Heartbroken, Simon is desperate to return Kestra to the rebel she was, but refuses to use magic to heal her. With untrusting Coracks and Halderians threatening to capture and kill her, and war looming on the horizon, Kestra and Simon will have to learn to trust each other again if they have any hope of surviving. But can a heart once broken ever be healed?The Deceiver's Heart marks a stunning return to Jennifer A. Nielsen's gorgeously rendered world of Antora and all its treachery and magic.
Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1594633878
In the vein of The Creative Habit and The Artist’s Way, a manifesto on the creative process from a master of the impossible. Since well before his epic (and illegal) 1974 walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, Philippe Petit had become an artist who answered first to the demands of his craft—and not just on the high wire, but also as a magician, street juggler, visual artist, builder, and writer. He was a rebel and an autodidact, cultivating the attitudes, resources, and techniques to tackle even seemingly impossible feats. His outlaw sensibility spawned a unique approach to the creative process—an approach he shares, with characteristic enthusiasm, irreverence, and originality, in Creativity: The Perfect Crime. With the reader as his accomplice, Petit reveals fresh and unconventional ways of going about the artistic endeavor, from generating and shaping ideas to practicing, problem-solving, and ultimately pulling off the “coup” itself—executing a finished work. His strategies and insights will resonate with performers of every stripe (actors, musicians, dancers), practitioners of the non-performing arts (writers, artists), professionals in search of new ways of meeting challenges, and individuals simply engaged in the art of living creatively.
Author : Jim O'Connor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0451532775
Discover the true story of the Twin Towers—how they came to be the tallest buildings in the world and why they were destroyed. When the Twin Towers were built in 1973, they were billed as an architectural wonder. At 1,368 feet, they clocked in as the tallest buildings in the world and changed the New York City skyline dramatically. Offices and corporations moved into the towers—also known as the World Trade Center—and the buildings were seen as the economic hub of the world. But on September 11, 2001, a terrorist attack toppled the towers and changed our nation forever. Discover the whole story of the Twin Towers—from their ambitious construction to their tragic end.
Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2008-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1628732814
More than a quarter-century before September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center was immortalized by an act of unprecedented daring and beauty. In August 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit boldly—and illegally—fixed a rope between the tops of the still-young Twin Towers, a quarter mile off the ground. At daybreak, thousands of spectators gathered to watch in awe and adulation as he traversed the rope a full eight times in the course of an hour. In Man on Wire, Petit recounts the six years he spent preparing for this achievement. It is a fitting tribute to those lost-but-not-forgotten symbols of human aspiration—the Twin Towers.