In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed. Mr. Moffett has chosen unusual and picturesque careers, and has offered dramatic scenes from the lives of the steeple climber, the diver, the balloonist,the pilot, the bridge builder, the fireman, the aerial acrobat, the wild animal trainer, the dynamite worker and lastly the locomotive driver. (Summary by annise)
And it has great pictures - ever wondered what the top of a steeple really looked like? Some listeners may find the "Wild Animal Tamer" stories distressing - I did. I would suggest you just don't download that section - the rest is well worth listening to.
The Steeple-Climber Pt 1 In Which We Make the Acquaintance of 'Steeple Bob'The Steeple-Climber Pt 2 How They Blew Off the Top of a Steeple with DynamiteThe Steeple-Climber Pt 3The Greatest Danger to a Steeple-Climber Lies in Being StartledThe Steeple-Climber Pt 4 Experience of an Amateur Climbing to a Steeple-topThe Deep-Sea Diver Pt 1 Some First Impressions of Men Who Go Down Under the SeaThe Deep-Sea Diver Pt 2 A Visit to the Burying-ground of WrecksThe Deep-Sea Diver Pt 3 An Afternoon of Story-telling on the Steam-pump DunderbergThe Deep-Sea Diver Pt 4 Wherein We Meet Sharks, Alligators, and a Very Tough Problem in WreckingThe Deep-Sea Diver Pt 5 In Which the Author Puts on a Diving-suit and Goes Down to a WreckThe Balloonist Pt 1 Here We Visit a Balloon Farm and Talk with the Man Who Runs ItThe Balloonist Pt 2 Which Treats of Experiments in Steering BalloonsThe Balloonist Pt 3 Something About Explosive Balloons and the Wonders of HydrogenThe Balloonist Pt 4 The Story of a Boy Who Ran Away in a Big BalloonThe Pilot Pt 1 Some Stirring Tales of the Sea Heard at the Pilot's ClubThe Pilot Pt 2 Which Shows How Pilots on the St. Lawrence Fight the Ice-floeThe Pilot Pt 3 Now We Watch the Men Who Shoot the Furious Rapids at LachineThe Pilot Pt 4 What Canadian Pilots Did in the Cataracts of the NileThe Bridge-Builder Pt 1 In Which We Visit a Place of Unusual Fears and PerilsThe Bridge-Builder Pt 2 The Experience of Two Novices in Balancing Along Narrow Girders and Watching the 'Traveler' GangThe Bridge-Builder Pt 3 Which Tells of Men Who Have Fallen from Great HeightsThe Fireman Pt 1 Wherein We See a Sleeping Village Swept by a River of Fire and the Burning of a Famous HotelThe Fireman Pt 2 What Bill Brown Did in the Great Tarrant FireThe Fireman Pt 3 Here We Visit an Engine-house at Night and Chat with the DriverThe Fireman Pt 4 Famous Rescues by New York Fire-boats from Red-hot Ocean LinersThe Aërial Acrobat Pt 1 Showing That it Takes More Than Muscle and Skill to Work on the High BarsThe Aërial Acrobat Pt 2 About Double and Triple Somersaults and the Danger of Losing HeartThe Aërial Acrobat Pt 3 In Which the Author Tries His Hand with Professional Trapeze PerformerThe Aërial Acrobat Pt 4 Some Remarkable Falls and Narrow Escapes of Famous AthletesThe Wild Beast Tamer Pt 1 We Visit a Queer Resort for Circus People and Talk with a Trainer of ElephantsThe Wild Beast Tamer Pt 2 Methods of Lion-tamers and the Story of Brutus's Attack on Mr. BostockThe Wild Beast Tamer Pt 3 Bonavita Describes His Fight with Seven Lions and George Arstingstall Tells How He Conquered a Mad ElephantThe Wild Beast Tamer Pt 4 We See Mr. Bostock Matched Against a Wild Lion and Hear About the Tiger RajahThe Wild Beast Tamer Pt 5 We Spend a Night Among Wild Beasts and See the Dangerous Lion Black PrinceThe Dynamite Worker Pt 1 The Story of Some Millionaire Heroes and the World's Greatest Powder ExplosionThe Dynamite Worker Pt 2 We Visit a Dynamite-factory and Meet a Man Who Thinks Courage is an AccidentThe Dynamite Worker Pt 3 How Joshua Plumstead Stuck to His Nitro-Glycerin-Vat in an Explosion and Saved the WorksThe Locomotive Engineer Pt 1 How it Feels to Ride at Night on a Locomote Going Ninety Miles an HourThe Locomotive Engineer Pt 2 We Pick Up Some Engine Lore and Hear About the Death of GiddingsThe Locomotive Engineer Pt 3 Some Memories of the Great Record-breaking Run from Chicago to BuffaloThe Locomotive Engineer Pt 4 We Hear Some Thrilling Stories at a Round-house and Reach the End of the Book
Careers of Danger and Daring - Cleveland Moffett - Description and brief content, listen free online on the e-library site at Knigi-Audio.com/en/
