The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein nature decor *Always needs to be right

*Always needs to be right

this remarkable book offers a practical guide to encourage conscientious environmental stewardship for all to follow

Fleck notes in the introduction: "Surely all American nature writers owe some debt to John Burroughs who takes the reader along the trail and gives him the sight

playfully celebratory opus

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai Gerstein nature decor *Always needs to be rightThe story of a daring tightrope walk between skyscrapers, as seen in Robert Zemeckis's The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon Levitt. In 1974, French aerialist Philippe Petit threw a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center and spent an hour walking, dancing, and performing high wire tricks a quarter mile in the sky. This picture book captures the poetry and magic of the event with a poetry of its own: lyrical words and lovely paintings