DIRTY JOBS: Careers of Danger and Daring (Illustrated Edition) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. How did they do it 100 years agoBy Cleveland Moffett
Length10h 47m
About this audiobook
In DIRTY JOBS: Careers of Danger and Daring, Cleveland Moffett turns the overlooked labor of perilous trades into vivid narrative reportage. The book examines occupations defined by physical risk, grime, endurance, and practical courage, presenting workers not as curiosities but as participants in the hidden machinery of modern life. Its illustrated edition enhances the documentary force of Moffett's prose, which combines brisk journalistic observation with the suspense and moral drama of adventure writing, placing the work within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century traditions of popular nonfiction and urban-industrial realism. Moffett was an American journalist, editor, and fiction writer whose career trained him to see drama in factual detail. Known for investigative pieces, interviews, and stories of detection and technological modernity, he possessed the reporter's appetite for firsthand experience and the storyteller's instinct for structure. His interest in danger, ingenuity, and social function likely shaped this volume's attention to workers whose hazardous tasks sustained public comfort while remaining largely invisible. Readers interested in labor history, narrative journalism, industrial culture, or tales of human nerve will find this book especially rewarding. It offers both historical insight and compelling storytelling, restoring dignity and fascination to work too often dismissed as merely dirty.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- Hand‐picked Memorable Quotes shine a spotlight on moments of literary brilliance.
- Interactive footnotes clarify unusual references, historical allusions, and archaic phrases for an effortless, more informed read.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length10 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 20, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1World War I - 9 Book Collection (Annotated)
2Dedication
3The Steeple-Climber
4I. In which We Make the Acquaintance of "Steeple Bob"
5II. How They Blew Off the Top of a Steeple with Dynamite
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6III. The Greatest Danger to a Steeple-Climber Lies in Being Startled
7IV. Experience of an Amateur Climbing to a Steeple-Top
8The Deep-Sea Diver
9I. Some First Impressions of Men Who Go Down Under the Sea
10II. A Visit to the Burying-Ground of Wrecks
11III. An Afternoon of Story-Telling on the Steam-Pump "Dunderberg"
12IV. Wherein We Meet Sharks, Alligators, and a Very Tough Problem in Wrecking
13V. In which the Author Puts on a Diving-Suit and Goes Down to a Wreck
14The Balloonist
15I. Here We Visit a Balloon Farm and Talk, with the Man Who Runs It
16II. Which Treats of Experiments in Steering Balloons
17III. Something About Explosive Balloons and the Wonders of Hydrogen
18IV. The Story of a Boy Who Ran Away in a Big Balloon
19The Pilot
20I. Some Stirring Tales of the Sea Heard at the Pilots' Club
21II. Which Shows How Pilots on the St. Lawrence Fight the Ice-Floes
22III. Now We Watch the Men Who Shoot the Furious Rapids at Lachine
23IV. What Canadian Pilots Did in the Cataracts of the Nile
24The Bridge-Builder
25I. In which We Visit a Place of Unusual Fears and Perils
26II. The Experience of Two Novices in Balancing Along Narrow Girders and Watching the "Traveler" Gang
27III. Which Tells of Men Who have Fallen from Great Heights
28The Fireman
29I. Wherein We See a Sleeping Village Swept by a River of Fire and the Burning of a Famous Hotel
30II. What Bill Brown Did in the Great Tarrant Fire
31III. Here We Visit an Engine-House at Night and Chat with the Driver
32IV. Famous Rescues by New York Fire-Boats from Red-hot Ocean Liners
33The Aërial Acrobat
34I. Showing that it Takes More than Muscle and Skill to Work on the High Bars
35II. About Double and Triple Somersaults and the Danger of Losing Heart
36III. In which the Author Tries His Hand with Professional Trapeze Performers
37IV. Some Remarkable Falls and Narrow Escapes of Famous Athletes
38The Wild-Beast Tamer
39I. We Visit a Queer Resort for Circus People and Talk with a Trainer of Elephants
40II. Methods of Lion-Tamers and the Story of Brutus's Attack on Mr. Bostock
41III. Bonavita Describes His Fight with Seven Lions and George Arstingstall Tells How He Conquered a Mad Elephant
42IV. We See Mr. Bostock Matched Against a Wild Lion and Hear about the Tiger Rajah
43V. We Spend a Night Among Wild Beasts and See the Dangerous Lion Black Prince
44The Dynamite Worker
45I. The Story of Some Millionaire Heroes and the World's Greatest Powder Explosion
46II. We Visit a Dynamite-Factory and Meet a Man Who Thinks Courage is an Accident
47III. How Joshua Plumstead Stuck to His Nitroglycerin-vat in an Explosion and Saved the Works
48The Locomotive Engineer
49I. How it Feels to Ride at Night on a Locomotive Going Ninety Miles an Hour
50II. We Pick Up Some Engine Lore and Hear About the Death of Giddings
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