To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers
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An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination. One late-summer day, a feat of unimaginable audacity was perpetrated on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The year was 1974. A hundred thousand people gathered on the ground to watch in awe as twenty-four-year-old high wire artist Philippe Petit made eight crossings between the all-but-completed towers, a quarter mile above the earth, over the course of nearly an hour. Petit's achievement made headlines around the world. Yet few who saw or heard about it realized that it was the fulfillment of a dream he had nurtured for six years, rekindling it each time it was in danger of expiring. His accomplices were a motley crew of foreigners and Americans, who under Petit's direction had conpired, connived, labored, argued, rehearsed, and improvised to make possible an act of unsurpassed aerial artistry. 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 capture everything from his budgets to his strategies for rigging a high wire in the dead of night between two of the most secure towers in the world. It is animated by photographs taken by two of Petit's collaborators, and by his own wonderfully evocative sketches and unquenchable humor.
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Petit, P. (2002). To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers. [United States], Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Petit, Philippe. 2002. To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers. [United States], Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Petit, Philippe, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers. [United States], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
MLA Citation (style guide)Petit, Philippe. To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers. [United States], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.
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