Books Details
Author : Philippe Petit Pages : 272 pages Publisher : Skyhorse
Language : ISBN-10 : 163450500X ISBN-13 : 9781634505000
Books Descriptions
Now a major motion picture directed by Robert Zemeckis and
starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, an artist of the air re-creates
his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and
imagination.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 The Walk, Petit
recounts the six years he spent preparing for this achievement,
a tour de force of imagination and tenacity.Petit?s achievement
made headlines around the world. In this stunning book, Petit
tells the dramatic story of this history-making walk, from
conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its
aftermath. It
