On the High Wire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the High Wire write by Philippe Petit. This book was released on 2019-06-25. On the High Wire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “On the High Wire is fascinating to read. You will learn about the man, his work, his passion, his tenacity and lucidity” (Marcel Marceau) In this poetic handbook, written when he was just twenty-three, the world-famous high-wire artist Philippe Petit offers a window into the world of his craft. Petit masterfully explains how preparation and self-control contributed to such feats as walking between the towers of Notre Dame and the World Trade Center. Addressing such topics as the rigging of the wire, the walker’s first steps, his salute and exercises, and the work of other renowned high-wire artists, Petit offers us a book about the ecstasy of conquering our fears and reaching for the stars.
On the High Wire
On the High Wire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the High Wire write by George Theoharis. This book was released on 2015-02-01. On the High Wire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The purpose of the work/life balance series is to highlight particular challenges that higher education faculty face as they participate in the demands of the academy and try to prevent those demands from invading their personal lives. On The High Wire looks at a specific subset of university faculty, education faculty with school-aged children, and the specific professional/personal balance these faculty need to find. The title On the High Wire suggests the precarious nature of the “walk” for education faculty who are parents of school-aged children. We know that our identities are central to how we experience the world and how the world reacts to us. This reality is clearly visible in this book. These multiple identities and roles come into conflict at multiple points and in different ways. This book explores these identities and roles through autoethnographic accounts written by varied education faculty in order to make these tensions visible for the field to address.
Mirette on the High Wire
Mirette on the High Wire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mirette on the High Wire write by Emily Arnold McCully. This book was released on 1992-10-20. Mirette on the High Wire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau- a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow's daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it. But Mirette doesn't know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini- master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again. Emily Arnold McCully's sweeping watercolor paintings carry the reader over the rooftops of nineteenth-century Paris and into an elegant, beautiful world of acrobats, jugglers, mimes, actors, and one gallant, resourceful little girl.
Hidden on the High Wire
Hidden on the High Wire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden on the High Wire write by Kathy Kacer. This book was released on 2022-09-27. Hidden on the High Wire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Irene grew up traveling around Germany with her family’s circus, surrounded by her loved ones and thrilling the crowds with her performance on the high wire...until one day, the audience boos. The Lorch family is Jewish, and the increasing power of Adolf Hitler’s Nazis has put them all in grave danger. When the circus is forced to shut down and Irene’s father is taken away, Irene and her mother must go into hiding with another circus. Every day is a frightening new kind of balancing act, caught between the desire to perform and the need to hide—even in plain sight.
To Reach the Clouds
To Reach the Clouds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook To Reach the Clouds write by Philippe Petit. This book was released on 2002. To Reach the Clouds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1974, 100,000 people on the ground watched 24-year-old high wire artist Petit make eight crossings between the World Trade Towers. In this visually and verbally stunning book, Petit tells for the first time the story of his walk, from conception and clandestine planning to the performance and its aftermath. 140 illustrations.
