Download or read book Up The Man in the Flying Chair written by Bridget Carpenter and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3m, 3f / Dramatic Comedy / Unit Set Up invites us into the life of Walter Griffin, a failed inventor obsessed with Philippe Petit's famed 1974 wire-walk between the twin World Trade Center towers. Walter's greatest moment of glory - a flight on a lawn chair festooned with helium balloons - is now long behind him, though Walter dreams of inventing something wonderful once more. His wife, Helen, has become disillusioned and frustrated at being the family's only breadwinner. Their teenage son, Mik
Download or read book Man in the Flying Lawn Chair written by Caroline Cromelin and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caroline Cromelin, Eric Nightengale, Monica Read, Kimberly Reiss, Troy W. Taber and Toby Wherry Comedy Characters: 2 male, 3 female Unit set. This high altitude comedy of errors based on the true story of Larry Walters, a man dedicated to getting the best view, was developed through improvisation at the78th Street Theatre Lab. Larry, with the help of fifty surplus weather balloons, launched himself to 1,600 feet in an aluminum lawn chair and lived to tell about it. After being spotted by passing aircraft, he descended by shooting several of the balloons with a pellet gun, got entangled in power lines and was arrested by the FAA for violating commercial airspace in an unauthorized vehicle. Mr. Walters dropped out of sight after a brief time in the spotlight including an appearance on the David Letterman show, but not before securing his place as a cult hero for weird daredevils everywhere. A radio version aired on the BBC. Winner of the Edinburgh Festival's Best of the Fringe.
Download or read book The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair written by George Plimpton and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Plimpton needed no encouragement. If there was a sport to play, a party to throw, a celebrity to amaze, a fireworks display to ignite, Plimpton was front and center hurling the pitch, popping the corks, lighting the fuse. And then, of course, writing about it with incomparable zest and style. His books made him a legend. "The Paris Review, the magazine he founded and edited, won him a throne in literary heaven. Somehow, in the midst of his self-generated cyclones, Plimpton managed to toss off dazzling essays, profiles, and "New Yorker "Talk of the Town" pieces. This delightful volume collects the very best of Plimpton's inspired brief "excursions." Whether he was escorting Hunter Thompson to the "Fear and Loathing movie premiere in New York or tracking down the California man who launched himself into the upper atmosphere with nothing but a lawn chair and a bunch of weather balloons, Plimpton had a rare knack for finding stories where no one else thought to look. Who but Plimpton would turn up in Las Vegas, notebook in hand, for the annual porn movie awards gala? Among the many gems collected here are accounts of helping Jackie Kennedy plan an unforgettable children's birthday party, the time he improvised his way through amateur night at Harlem's famed Apollo Theater, and how he managed to get himself kicked out of Exeter just weeks before graduation. The grand master of what he called "participatory journalism," George Plimpton followed his bent and his genius down the most unbelievable rabbit holes-but he always came up smiling. This exemplary, utterly captivating volume is a fitting tribute to one of the great literary lives of our time. "From the Hardcoveredition.
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins By R Paltock With coloured illustrations from original designs by Phiz written by Peter WILKINS and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Titanic Secret written by Jack Steel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic A covert operation with catastrophic global consequences collides with fate in this ingeniously inventive novel of conspiracy, subterfuge, and murder unfurling against a factual, tragic, and heart-stopping moment in history. THE TITANIC SECRET April 1912: Shortly after midnight on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, mere yards from the British Embassy, an English spy is shot after a clandestine meeting with a German government official. He utters three cryptic words to a sentry, then dies. It’s an ambush as calculated and cold-blooded as the scheme it helps set in motion. For Gunther Voss, a tyrannical German financier who has amassed a fortune in mining, it’s the biggest gamble he has ever undertaken: commit America to joining forces with Germany against Great Britain, destroy an empire, and secure for himself the invaluable South African mining concessions currently controlled by the British. It would make the formidable Voss, already a figure of both fear and admiration in America, one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the world. Even as devious, self-seeking, and unthinkable as the plan is, with an alliance as strong as America and Germany, it’s more than possible—it’s inevitable. It has fallen on the unique talents of Alex Tremayne of Britain’s Secret Service Bureau and beautiful Maria Weston, a pioneering, fearless, and experienced American agent currently working in Britain, to stop Voss dead in his tracks. Traveling undercover as man and wife, their mission is to neutralize Voss’s plan before he reaches the States. And they’ll be tracking Voss’s every move on the eventful transatlantic journey in unparalleled luxury, occupying a first class suite on board the Titanic, on her heralded maiden voyage from Southampton to the Port of New York. But Tremayne and Weston are unprepared for the explosive plays of fate that await them, as well as their prey, over the next few nights of their doomed journey. For the ever-shifting dedication to duty and the choices between life and death will become more immediate, more intimate, more demanding, and far more treacherous than they could ever have imagined.
Download or read book The Wreck of the Titan written by Morgan Robertson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella of unrequited love, human arrogance, and deadly tragedy that predicted the legendary Titanic disaster…fourteen years before it happened. In 1898, Morgan Robertson penned The Wreck of the Titan, a love story set aboard the Titan, the most advanced steamship of the age. When the “unsinkable” passenger liner hit an iceberg, nearly all its passengers perished at sea. On April 15, 1912, the most advanced steamship of its age, the “unsinkable” Titanic, struck an iceberg and was lost to the ocean, becoming forever immortalized as a cultural touchstone. The similarities between the fact of the Titanic and the fiction of the Titan are more than just name-deep. Both stories tell the tale of real humans faced with an unfathomable disaster, and the hopes of humankind at the turn of a new century. As the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic is remembered, Robertson’s work of fiction gives great insights into the human scope of the tragedy…and the enduring power of love. Includes a special excerpt from the all-new Titanic thriller, The Titanic Secret, by Jack Steel—Available in stores and online now!
Download or read book The Titanic Secret written by James Becker and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This edition originally published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by Canelo."
Download or read book Cloud War 4 Air War Pulp Yarns written by David Goodis and published by Peril Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sky Raiders, February, 1943 THE CLOUD WIZARD by David Goodis They were all in awe of Bersbee, because the man was more than just a genius–he was a veritable sorcerer in the clouds. And no one dared to ask him how he did it, until one day... 5600 Words The Lone Eagle , February 1941 KILLER ACE by David Goodis Dane Kern Scours the Bullet-Torn Heavens to Match Machine-Gun Slugs with a Cowardly German That Can't Fight on the Level! 5100 Words RAF Aces (Canadian) December, 1944 KID BROTHER by David Goodis Allan Darwood Had Soldiering in His Blood—but He Denied His Own Heritage of Glorious Combat! 5400 Words Fighting Aces, May 1944 CLOUD BUSTER A DRAMATIC SKY-WAR STORY by David Goodis as Ray P. Shotwell “I may fail this squadron in a lot of ways, but there’s one thing you can be sure of. A Hun knocked my brother out of the skies—I’m sticking around until I even the score!” 5500 Words This edition includes the original illustrations to the stories.
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Download or read book Adventures of the Wishing Chair written by Enid Blyton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Adventures of the Wishing Chair" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Trumpets Sound No More written by Jon Redfern and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1840, the theatre world in London is shocked by the brutal killing of one of its youngest and most successful entrepreneurs. Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police Force, is called upon to apprehend the culprit before Christmas Eve.
