<p>To Reach the Clouds : My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers [Import] [Hardcover]</p>

To Reach the Clouds : My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

Philippe Petit

Biographies & Memoirs

Faber and Faber

In 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the Twin Towers. He made eight corssings in an hour, while 100,000 people watched in the streets of New York. In "To Reach The Clouds", Petit recreates his six-and-a-half-year quest to realize his dream. Animated by numerous photographs and Petit's sketches, this text is a serenade to his beloved towers and the unfettered aspiration they expressed.

To Reach the Clouds

Humor & Entertainment

Faber&Faber

Arts & Literature

To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in

Sports & Outdoors

Faber & Faber Non-Fiction

On the High Wire

Walk

Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Man on Wire

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.

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