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Man on Wire by Philippe Petit (2008, Trade Paperback)
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- Condition
- Type
- Textbook
- ISBN
- 9781602393325
- Book Title
- Man on Wire
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 6.1 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History, Performing Arts
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Cultural Heritage, Circus, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Gymnastics
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
160239332x
ISBN-13
9781602393325
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038438467
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man on Wire
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Cultural Heritage, Circus, General, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Gymnastics
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation, History, Performing Arts
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
6.1 in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
One year after the nightmares of September 11, how good to remember that morning in 1974 when a young man gave New York a gift of astonishing, indelible beauty. How good that he has sat down now to give us this lively and often heart-stopping account of how he achieved his masterpiece., It was Philippe Petit who connected the twin towers of the World Trade Center, in an act of beauty and ecstasy. Now that an act of terror has destroyed them both, his book resurrects and reunites them, in sheer defiance of gravity., Philippe Petit planned and executed the perfect crime by walking on a high wire between the twin towers, and the whole world loved him for doing it. --Guy F. Tozzoli, President, World Trade Centers Association, On the morning of August 7, 1974 having already illegally rigged and walked steel cables between the towers of Notre Dame in Paris and Australia's Sydney Harbor Bridge French funambulist Petit illegally rigged 200 feet of 7/8" steel cable between the two World Trade Center towers and walked between them repeatedly, lying down at one point and making eight crossings in all. This incredible feat resulted from six years of obsessive planning and problem-solving, meticulously documented in this engrossing, truly exhilarating account of how he pulled it off. Petit has penned four previous books in French regaling his various exploits, and here establishes an elegantly energetic and quirkily poetic English as he tells of secretly (and benignly) casing the World Trade Center, assembling his team of helpers for the enormously complicated (and improvised) rigging job, getting the heavy cable and rigging tools to the roof, running the wire across in the dead of night (via an arrow shot between the towers!), and tightening the cable: "Even in the midst of the hardest rigging job or most demanding clandestine adventure, I never fail to pause and admire the moment when tension brings my cable to what I consider its most seductive shape. Then I pause and smile back." The way in which the walk itself stopped traffic and galvanized the city is captured in Petit's descriptions and the 140 b&w photos (including Petit's notebook sketches), a most fitting remembrance of the World Trade Center as a piece of New York social architecture. The spirit behind Petit's form of trespass undertaken with enormous care, to the point of wrapping the rigging in carpet so it would not damage the towers acts directly against the violation of the city's structures and the murder of its people., On August 7, 1974, French funambulist Petit, then 24, performed an astonishing high-wire act on a cable that he and his accomplices had surreptitiously rigged between the north and south towers of the World Trade Center. In short, predominantly one-page chapters, Petit details the entire adventure, from its inception in a Parisian dentist's office in 1968 through his hour-long aerial feat of eight trips across the cable, 1350 feet above the ground, while more than 100,000 New Yorkers watched. Wonderfully documented are the assemblage of his confederates, the innumerable covert trips to the towers, the exhaustive planning, and, especially, the seemingly endless frustrations, problems, fights, and difficulties throughout the six-year period that led up to the "artistic crime of the century." Part Houdini, part Evil Kneivel, Petit is certainly fascinating; if his prose sags a little under the weight of too many exclamatory and interrogative sentences and hyperbolic tropes, he is to be forgiven; after all, he spent an hour suspended between heaven and earth. The 140 drawings and photographs are by Petit and his comrades and tend to be a bit amateurish, but they do give readers an idea of just how audacious a feat it was. Essential. Barry X. Miller, Austin P.L., TX, Every time I watch Philippe Petit perform, my heart beats a mile a minute, and I wonder, awe-inspiring as are his accomplishments on the wire., Philippe Petit planned and executed the perfect crime by walking on a high wire between the twin towers, and the whole world loved him for doing it.
Lccn
2008-027063
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
791.3/4092 B
Lc Classification Number
Gv550.2.P47a3 2008
Copyright Date
2008
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