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<p><b>An artist of the air re-creates his six-year plot to pull off an act of incomparable beauty and imagination</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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, whi

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Author

Philippe Petit

Publisher

Macmillan Trade

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429921862

Category

nonfiction

Rating

4.12 / 5 (410 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14