Man on Wire

Man on Wire
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 9781628732818
ISBN-13 : 1628732814
Rating : 4/5 (814 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Man on Wire by : Philippe Petit

Download or read book Man on Wire written by Philippe Petit and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-11-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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