Careers of Danger and DaringCleveland Moffett
Careers of Danger and Daring
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.
Audiolibros
40 capítulos
10 h 24 min
- 1 The Steeple-Climber Pt 1 In Which We Make the Acquaintance of 'Steeple Bob'18:00
- 2 The Steeple-Climber Pt 2 How They Blew Off the Top of a Steeple with Dynamite11:58
- 3 The Steeple-Climber Pt 3The Greatest Danger to a Steeple-Climber Lies in Being Startled15:18
- 4 The Steeple-Climber Pt 4 Experience of an Amateur Climbing to a Steeple-top18:35
- 5 The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 1 Some First Impressions of Men Who Go Down Under the Sea24:13
- 6 The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 2 A Visit to the Burying-ground of Wrecks16:04
- 7 The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 3 An Afternoon of Story-telling on the Steam-pump Dunderberg13:40
- 8 The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 4 Wherein We Meet Sharks, Alligators, and a Very Tough Problem in Wrecking11:28
- 9 The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 5 In Which the Author Puts on a Diving-suit and Goes Down to a Wreck13:18
- 10 The Balloonist Pt 1 Here We Visit a Balloon Farm and Talk with the Man Who Runs It15:35
- 11 The Balloonist Pt 2 Which Treats of Experiments in Steering Balloons14:52
- 12 The Balloonist Pt 3 Something About Explosive Balloons and the Wonders of Hydrogen10:40
- 13 The Balloonist Pt 4 The Story of a Boy Who Ran Away in a Big Balloon18:03
- 14 The Pilot Pt 1 Some Stirring Tales of the Sea Heard at the Pilot's Club15:08
- 15 The Pilot Pt 2 Which Shows How Pilots on the St. Lawrence Fight the Ice-floe10:49
- 16 The Pilot Pt 3 Now We Watch the Men Who Shoot the Furious Rapids at Lachine13:55
- 17 The Pilot Pt 4 What Canadian Pilots Did in the Cataracts of the Nile14:21
- 18 The Bridge-Builder Pt 1 In Which We Visit a Place of Unusual Fears and Perils10:46
- 19 The Bridge-Builder Pt 2 The Experience of Two Novices in Balancing Along Narrow Girders and Watching the 'Traveler' Gang16:48
- 20 The Bridge-Builder Pt 3 Which Tells of Men Who Have Fallen from Great Heights16:58
- 21 The Fireman Pt 1 Wherein We See a Sleeping Village Swept by a River of Fire and the Burning of a Famous Hotel18:19
- 22 The Fireman Pt 2 What Bill Brown Did in the Great Tarrant Fire16:56
- 23 The Fireman Pt 3 Here We Visit an Engine-house at Night and Chat with the Driver12:04
- 24 The Fireman Pt 4 Famous Rescues by New York Fire-boats from Red-hot Ocean Liners19:42
- 25 The Aërial Acrobat Pt 1 Showing That it Takes More Than Muscle and Skill to Work on the High Bars14:56
- 26 The Aërial Acrobat Pt 2 About Double and Triple Somersaults and the Danger of Losing Heart13:20
- 27 The Aërial Acrobat Pt 3 In Which the Author Tries His Hand with Professional Trapeze Performer18:22
- 28 The Aërial Acrobat Pt 4 Some Remarkable Falls and Narrow Escapes of Famous Athletes12:37
- 29 The Wild Beast Tamer Pt 1 We Visit a Queer Resort for Circus People and Talk with a Trainer of Elephants16:28
- 30 The Wild Beast Tamer Pt 2 Methods of Lion-tamers and the Story of Brutus's Attack on Mr. Bostock16:12
- 31 The Wild Beast Tamer Pt 3 Bonavita Describes His Fight with Seven Lions and George Arstingstall Tells How He Conquered a Mad Elephant17:53
- 32 The Wild Beast Tamer Pt 4 We See Mr. Bostock Matched Against a Wild Lion and Hear About the Tiger Rajah14:12
- 33 The Wild Beast Tamer Pt 5 We Spend a Night Among Wild Beasts and See the Dangerous Lion Black Prince14:46
- 34 The Dynamite Worker Pt 1 The Story of Some Millionaire Heroes and the World's Greatest Powder Explosion17:02
- 35 The Dynamite Worker Pt 2 We Visit a Dynamite-factory and Meet a Man Who Thinks Courage is an Accident13:19
- 36 The Dynamite Worker Pt 3 How Joshua Plumstead Stuck to His Nitro-Glycerin-Vat in an Explosion and Saved the Works14:41
- 37 The Locomotive Engineer Pt 1 How it Feels to Ride at Night on a Locomote Going Ninety Miles an Hour19:28
- 38 The Locomotive Engineer Pt 2 We Pick Up Some Engine Lore and Hear About the Death of Giddings11:25
- 39 The Locomotive Engineer Pt 3 Some Memories of the Great Record-breaking Run from Chicago to Buffalo18:49
- 40 The Locomotive Engineer Pt 4 We Hear Some Thrilling Stories at a Round-house and Reach the End of the Book23:44