On The High Wire

Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811228657
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the High Wire written by Philippe Petit and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698114434
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirette on the High Wire written by Emily Arnold McCully and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-14 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1772602523
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden on the High Wire written by Kathy Kacer and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles Ogden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416915001
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Wire written by Charles Ogden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prankster twins Edgar and Ellen think they have found kindred spirits when they join the circus to escape from their mysterious caretaker and the one-eyed creature Pet, but they soon discover that it is hard to tell friend from foe.

Author : Melanie Jackson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459802365
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Wire written by Melanie Jackson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-wire walker Zack has to solve a mysterious theft at the youth circus.

Author : Lisa Railsback
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101437162
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betti on the High Wire written by Lisa Railsback and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten-year-old Babo has grown up on an abandoned circus camp in a war-torn country, believing her circus-star parents will come back any day now. So she's none too happy when an American couple adopts her, calls her Betti, and takes her away from her fellow parentless friends, to a very confusing America. Betti misses her old home, and she's worried her real parents will never be able to find her. She's determined to run away, but as she gets to know her new parents, little sister, and even a new friend, Betti starts to feel like maybe she could be happy in her new American home.

Author : Philippe Petit
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865476519
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Reach the Clouds written by Philippe Petit and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-wire artist traces his six years of planning and training to walk a wire between the towers of the nearly completed World Trade Center in 1974 and describes the history-making realization of his goal eight times in the course of an hour.

Author : Anna Schmidt
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1636091393
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-Wire Heartbreak written by Anna Schmidt and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936--A party at the Ringling mansion Ca d’Zan in Sarasota, Florida, leads to a robbery--and possibly death. A successful historical mystery writer, Chloe Whitfield comes to Ca’ d’Zan to research her next novel. Chloe’s fascination with the circus is rooted in family stories of her great-grandmother Lucinda Conroy, who reportedly was a trapeze artist of some renown. She’s heard hints of scandal—and perhaps larceny, but no details. Chloe’s grandmother—rumored to be Lucinda’s only offspring—was raised in an orphanage and never knew her mother. Intrigued as she is, Chloe has no intent of writing about Lucinda until she sees a poster featuring Lucinda as the star performer for a 70th birthday gala for John Ringling in May of 1936. From there the trail goes cold. Who was Lucinda and what happened to her?

Author : Mary Calhoun
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media
ISBN 13 : 9781635618488
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High-Wire Henry written by Mary Calhoun and published by Echo Point Books & Media. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry, a Siamese cat, is well-loved by his family. But when a new pup is added to the mix and starts getting all of the attention, he decides to show them what he can do. His skills come in handy in an unexpected rescue. The fast pace, plot twists, and clear resolution of the adventure make this story a natural read-aloud.

Author : Lloyd Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780995123083
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Wire written by Lloyd Jones and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made for grownups and designed to showcase leading New Zealand writers and artists working together in a collaborative and dynamic way. In High Wire the narrators playfully set out across the Tasman, literally on a high wire. Macleods striking drawings explore notions of home, and depict homeward thoughts and dreams. High Wire also enters a metaphysical place where art is made, a place where any ambitious art-making enterprise requires its participants to hold their nerve and not look down. Its a beautifully considered small book which richly rewards the reader and stretches the notion of what the book can do.