On the High Wire

2019-06-25 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Philippe Petit
Release : 2019-06-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis On the High Wire by : Philippe Petit

Download or read book On the High Wire written by Philippe Petit. This book was released on 2019-06-25. 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.

Mirette on the High Wire

1992-10-21 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Emily Arnold McCully
Release : 1992-10-21
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Mirette on the High Wire written by Emily Arnold McCully. This book was released on 1992-10-21. 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.

Hidden on the High Wire

2022-09-27 Juvenile Fiction

Author : Kathy Kacer
Release : 2022-09-27
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Hidden on the High Wire written by Kathy Kacer. This book was released on 2022-09-27. 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.

High Wire

2020-04

Author : Lloyd Jones
Release : 2020-04
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 083/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book High Wire written by Lloyd Jones. This book was released on 2020-04. 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.

On the High Wire

2015-02-01 Education

Author : George Theoharis
Release : 2015-02-01
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 298/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book On the High Wire written by George Theoharis. This book was released on 2015-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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