The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Title | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers PDF eBook |
Author | Mordicai Gerstein |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2007-04-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780312368784 |
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
To Reach the Clouds
Title | To Reach the Clouds PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Petit |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | 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.
Daddy Darwin's Dovecot
Title | Daddy Darwin's Dovecot PDF eBook |
Author | Juliana Horatia Ewing |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 62 |
Release | 1889 |
Genre | Children |
ISBN |
Supplementary reading book used in Saskatchewan schools. Young Jack March, a poor orphan from the workhouse, wants nothing more than to be a choirboy and have a home at Daddy Darwin's dovecot where he will tend the pigeons.
On the High Wire
Title | On the High Wire PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Petit |
Publisher | New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | 97 |
Release | 2019-06-25 |
Genre | 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.
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers
Title | The Man Who Walked Between the Towers PDF eBook |
Author | Mordicai Gerstein |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 2007-04-17 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 031236878X |
A lyrical evocation of Philippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers.
The Deceiver's Heart (The Traitor's Game, Book Two)
Title | The Deceiver's Heart (The Traitor's Game, Book Two) PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer A. Nielsen |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | 358 |
Release | 2019-02-26 |
Genre | 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.
Man on Wire
Title | Man on Wire PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Petit |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2008-11-17 |
Genre | 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.