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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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Man on Wire, Philippe Petit
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
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- Titel
- Man on Wire
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Philippe Petit
- Verlag
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2008
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 160239332X
- ISBN13
- 9781602393325
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Geschichte, Abenteuer, Autobiografien & Memoiren
- Bewertung
- 4,25 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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.