To reach the clouds

my high wire walk between the Twin Towers

by Petit, Philippe

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Published 2008 by Skyhorse Pub. in New York .
Written in English

Subjects:

Petit, Philippe, -- 1949-,
World Trade Center (New York, N.Y.),
Aerialists -- France -- Biography

Edition Notes

Classifications
Other titles	My high wire walk between the Twin Towers
Statement	Philippe Petit.
Genre	Biography.
LC Classifications	GV550.2.P47 A3 2008
The Physical Object
Pagination	p. cm.
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL16927818M
ISBN 10	9781602393325
LC Control Number	2008027063
OCLC/WorldCa	227016698

Read "To Reach the Clouds My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers" by Philippe Petit available from Rakuten Kobo. An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination One late-sum Brand: Farrar, Straus And Giroux. Book Review: To Reach the Clouds Posted on | Tags: review, recommended by Michelle In Philippe Petit, a young street performer and tightrope walker from France, visited New York and did something unthinkable - he strung a wire between the newly built twin towers of the World Trade Center and walked across the chasm, feet.

In To Reach the Clouds, now filmed as The Walk, Philippe Petit re-creates a six-year quest to realise his dream, an adventure as thrilling as the walk itself. In an unforgettable memoir he tells the story of how he conspired, connived, improvised, and insisted his way to this 'coup', abetted by a motley crew of accomplices, the occasional /5(). To Reach The Clouds. See more book details Pan Macmillan South Africa. Synopsis A high-wire artist traces his six years of planning and training to walk a wire between the towers of the nearly completed World Trade Center in and describes the history-making realization of his goal.

A heady, rushing account of the outrageous high-wire act performed by Petit, on August 7, , between the World Trade Center towers. Even Petit understood it to be a “mad project,” which was why, when he took to the cable he and his confederates had strung between the Twin Towers, he held much of the city in thrall for an hour as he coursed back and forth stories : Philippe Petit. Download PDF To Reach The Clouds book full free. To Reach The Clouds available for download and read online in other formats.

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To read this book is to reach for the clouds. Madman or visionary. Petit must be infuriating to know, but both his aspirations and his writing is poetic. Petit is unfraid to show his fear. He lets us step onto the wire with him - and the view is spectacular.

Warning: To reach the clouds book own life may feel very dull by comparison/5(33). *** I won a free copy of this book via a giveaway by the publisher on Instagram *** To Reach the Clouds is an autobiographical recounting of the six-year plot to rig a highwire between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in order to orchestrate an act of unsurpassed aerial artistry/5.

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The Walk is a American 3D biographical drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Christopher Browne and Zemeckis. It is based on the story of year-old French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on August 7, The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Ben Schwartz, and Steve Based on: To Reach the Clouds, by Philippe Petit.

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To Reach the Clouds My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers by Philippe Petit. ebook. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the dramatic story of this history-making walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath.

The account draws on Petit's journals, which. One night ina young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak, he gave the high-wire performance of all time, making eight crossings over the course of an hour, floors up above the earth, as a hundred thousand people gathered on the ground to To Reach the Clouds, now filmed as The Walk, Author: Philippe Petit.

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Philippe Petit has 46 books on Goodreads with ratings. Philippe Petit’s most popular book is To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin. Philippe Petit became famous in August for his high-wire walk between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

His walk is known as the "artistic crime of the century". Petit has performed high-wire walks around the world, and a documentary based on his adventure, Man on Wire, won numerous awards and critical praise.4/5.

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