Careers of Danger and Daring: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Careers of Danger and Daring, credited to Cleveland Moffett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Careers of Danger and Daring, by Cleveland Moffett. A Vocational Guidance Manual ? - 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 wild animal trainer, the aerial acrobat, 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.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Careers of Danger and Daring
• Author credits: Cleveland Moffett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 40
• Listed recording duration: 10:24:44

Opening tracks: first 24 of 40

1. 01 - The Steeple Climber Pt 1 In Which We Make the Acquaintance of 'Steeple Bob' — 18:01
2. 02 - The Steeple Climber Pt 2 How They Blew Off the Top of a Steeple with Dynamite — 11:58
3. 03 - The Steeple-Climber Pt 3 The Greatest Danger to a Steeple-Climber Lies in Being Startled — 15:18
4. 04 - The Steeple-Climber Pt 4 Experience of an Amateur Climbing to a Steeple-top — 18:36
5. 05 - The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 1 Some First Impressions of Men Who Go Down Under the Sea — 24:13
6. 06 - The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 2 A Visit to the Burying-ground of Wrecks — 16:05
7. 07 - The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 3 An Afternoon of Story-telling on the Steam-pump Dunderberg — 13:40
8. 08 - The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 4 Wherein We Meet Sharks, Alligators, and a Very Tough Problem in Wrecking — 11:28
9. 09 - The Deep-Sea Diver Pt 5 In Which the Author Puts on a Diving-suit and Goes Down to a Wreck — 13:19
10. 10 -The Balloonist Pt 1 Here We Visit A Balloon Farm And Talk, With The Man Who Runs It — 15:36
11. 11 - The Balloonist Pt 2 Which Treats of Experiments in Steering Balloons — 14:52
12. 12 - The Balloonist Pt 3 Something About Explosive Balloons and the Wonders of Hydrogen — 10:41
13. 13 - The Ballonist pt 4 The Story of a Boy Who Ran Away in a Big Balloon — 18:03
14. 14 - The Pilot Pt 1 Some Stirring Tales of the Sea Heard at the Pilot's Club — 15:09
15. 15 - The Pilot Pt 2 Which Shows How Pilots on the St. Lawrence Fight the Ice-floe — 10:49
16. 16 - The Pilot Pt 3 Now We Watch the Men Who Shoot the Furious Rapids at Lachine — 13:56
17. 17 - The Pilot Pt 4 What Canadian Pilots Did in the Cataracts of the Nile — 14:22
18. 18 - The Bridge-Builder Pt 1 In Which We Visit a Place of Unusual Fears and Perils — 10:47
19. 19 - The Bridge Builder Part 2 The Experience of Two Novices in Balancing Along Narrow Girders and Watching the 'Traveler' Gang — 16:49
20. 20 - The Bridge Builder Part 3 — 16:58
21. 21 - The Fireman part 1Wherein We See a Sleeping Village Swept by a River of Fire and the Burning of a Famous Hotel — 18:19
22. 22 - The Fireman Pt 2 What Bill Brown Did in the Great Tarrant Fire — 16:57
23. 23 - The Fireman Pt 3 Here We Visit an Engine-house at Night and Chat with the Driver — 12:05
24. 24 - The Fireman Pt 4 Famous Rescues by New York Fire-boats from Red-hot Ocean Liners — 19:43

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