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Tightrope Walking: Tightrope Walkers, Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, Slacklining, Con Colleano, Bird Millman, Charles Blondin, Nik Wallenda

Tightrope Walking: Tightrope Walkers, Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, Slacklining, Con Colleano, Bird Millman, Charles Blondin, Nik Wallenda


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tightrope Walkers, Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, Slacklining, Con Colleano, Bird Millman, Charles Blondin, Nik Wallenda, Elvira Madigan, William Leonard Hunt, Lady Emma Herbert, Didier Pasquette, Jade Kindar-Martin, Jultagi, David Dimitri, Stephen Peer, Maria Spelterini, Rudy Omankowski, Jr.. Excerpt: Philippe Petit (born August 13, 1949 in Nemours, Seine-et-Marne) is a French high wire artist who gained fame for his high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on August 7, 1974. For his feat (that he referred to as "le coup" ), he used a 450-pound (200 kg) cable and a custom-made 26-foot (7.9 m) long, 55-pound (25 kg) balancing pole. Petit was born in Nemours, France in 1949; his father, Edmond Petit, was an author and a former Army pilot. Philippe became interested in magic at a very early age. A strong rebellious streak got him expelled from five different schools, and by the age of 15 he had run away from home. By the late 1960s, he had trained himself as a wire-walker. "Within one year," he told a reporter, "I taught myself to do all the things you could do on a wire. I learned the backward somersault, the front somersault, the unicycle, the bicycle, the chair on the wire, jumping through hoops. But I thought, 'What is the big deal here? It looks almost ugly.' So I started to discard those tricks and to reinvent my art." Spurning circuses and their formulaic performances, he began performing as a street busker in Paris. In the early 1970s, he frequently juggled and worked on a slack rope in New York City's Washington Square Park. Beginning in the 1970s, Petit began eyeing world-famous structures as stages for high-wire walks, which he executed as a combination of circus act and public performance. He... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1718352


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158111503
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Tightrope Walkers, Philippe Petit, Man on Wire, Slacklining, Con Colleano, Bird Millman, Charles Blondin, Nik Wallenda
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1158111509
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Weight: 122 gr


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