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Philippe petits reallife walk between the twin towers in pictures. The true story behind philippe petits world trade center wire walk. The real story behind philippe petits world trade center. It tells the story of a tight rope walker who walked between the twin towers in new york city. His fiction has been published in thirtyfive languages. The walk replays philippe petits highwire act but was it art. Philippe petit is a french born tightrope walker who became famous for making an unauthorised walk on a steel cable between the twin towers of the world trade centre in manhattan august 7, 1974.

Petits feat is mirrored in the book in the life of corrigan, an irish emigre. The hullabaloo was over a frenchman named philippe petit, who was walking on a high wire more than 1,300 feet in the air, suspended between the tops of the twin towers of the old world trade center. The man who walked between the towers is a beautiful book by mordicai gerstein. He spent months studying the world trade centers twin towers. Through a spell binding account and through meticulous details mr. Let the great world spin by colum mccann fiction the guardian. Walt disney was an american motion picture and television producer and showman, famous. Philippe stepped on a nail in one of the twin towers.

This week marks 44 years since petit, then 24, orchestrated one of the most deathdefying acts of all time walking on a wire about as wide as a. This biography profiles his childhood, family, achievements, and other facts. Petit tells us about his incredible high wire feat. The astonishing high wire performance between the towers of the world trade center in 1974. Nuimerous photographs and gripping descriptions are sure to bring moisture to the palms of most readers. Philippe petit looks back on historic twin towers walk 44 years.

He remembers being inspired as a child by images of fine art. Another problem appeared three weeks before the planned walk. The book won the caldecott medal in 2004 and was published by roaring book pressmillbrook press. The man who walked between the towers is a childrens picture book written and illustrated by american mordicai gerstein. Not about the september 11 attacks, this book is instead the story of phillipe petit, the tightrope artist who walked between the two towers, just. Mordicai gerstein is the author and illustrator of the man who walked between the towers, winner of the caldecott medal, and has had four books named new york times best illustrated books of the year. In case of strong winds, they could slightly sway it was a part of their design. He has also written six books, including 1985s on the high wire, and a oneman show. Colum mccann is the internationally bestselling author of the novels transatlantic, let the great world spin, zoli, dancer, this side of brightness, and songdogs, as well as two critically acclaimed story collections.

Petit until a decade ago when he happened on the picture book, the man who walked between the towers by mordicai gerstein. He was also the subject of a childrens book and an animated adaptation of it, released in 2005. A 25yearold french daredevil did a tightrope walk across the top of new york in 1974 on a 1foot cable strung between the 110story twin. Philippe petit walks a tightrope between the twin towers in 1974. Philippe petits crazy highwire walk between the twin towers. In 1974, frenchman philippe petit walked across a tightrope stretched between the world trade centers twin towers. Joseph oneills netherland, clare messuds the emperors children. Philippe petit walks between the world trade centre twin towers, 7 august 1974. Writing in english, phillipe petit brings alive his 1974 high wire walk between the twin towers of the late world trade center.