The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

Summary

This is the true story of Philippe Petit, the French aerialist who strung a wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and walked across it in 1974. Gerstein's airy ink and oil illustrations soar to dizzying heights, with foldout pages that drop the reader into the open sky above New York. The book honors a daring feat and quietly memorializes the towers themselves, lost in 2001.