On The High Wire
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| Author | : Philippe Petit |
| Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2019-06-25 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0811228657 |
“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 |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 1992-10-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0399221301 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2022-09-27 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1772602523 |
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 | : Lloyd Jones |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2020-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780995123083 |
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.
| Author | : Melanie Jackson |
| Publisher | : Orca Book Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1459802365 |
High-wire walker Zack has to solve a mysterious theft at the youth circus.
| Author | : Anna Schmidt |
| Publisher | : Barbour Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2022-01-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1636091393 |
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 | : Philippe Petit |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0865476519 |
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.
| Author | : Kalyn Roseanne Livernois |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Pub |
| Total Pages | : 50 |
| Release | : 2014-02-08 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9781495395055 |
We all feel the cracking in our bones, the strain of our hearts, and the aching that comes with growing up. Loving, love lost, adventure, a hunger for home (whatever "home" means), nostalgia, angst. We all just want someone to look us in the face and say, "I know exactly how you feel." And that is precisely what "High Wire Darlings" is here to tell us.
| Author | : Becky Jane Lambert |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2001-03-01 |
| Genre | : Activity programs in education |
| ISBN | : 9781888659153 |
| Author | : George Theoharis |
| Publisher | : IAP |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2015-02-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1623969298 |
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.
