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Astonishing and extinct professions : 89 jobs you will never do / Markus Rottmann ; illustrated by Michael Meister ; translated from German by Ashley Curtis and Sonia Curtis.

by Rottmann, Markus.

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Helvetiq, c2023.

Occupations -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Professions -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Lichtputzer und Pulveraffen. English

Alternate title:

89 jobs you will never do

Eighty-nine jobs you will never do

87 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm.

Text in English, translated from the German.

Sponge divers -- Fullones (urine washers) -- Gladiators -- Armpit-hair pluckers -- Bematists (step counters) -- Mandarins -- Wet nurses -- Itinerant preachers -- Alewives -- What exactly is a profession? -- Tasters -- Wailing women -- Funeral jesters -- Mutes - -Tower watchmen -- Executioners -- Roddarmadams (rower women) -- Whipping boys -- Court jesters -- Plague doctors -- Whalebone rippers -- Ragpickers -- Alchemists -- Explorers -- Festival pyrobolists -- Balladeers -- Quack doctors -- Candle trimmers -- Torch boys -- Lamplighters -- Water carriers -- Abtrittanbieter (walking toilets) -- Dirty professions -- Rat catchers -- Street sweepers -- Nightmen -- Herb strewers -- Waker-uppers -- Bow Street Runners -- Service professions -- Sedan-chair carriers -- Ornamental hermits -- Silhouette cutters -- Coffee sniffers -- The history of professions -- Object swallowers -- Hunger artists -- Fartists -- Barrel-organ players -- Claqueurs (clappers) -- Hatters -- Leech collectors -- Forbidden professions -- Body snatchers -- Privateers -- Moonshiners -- Ice harvesters -- Icemen -- Riders of the Pony Express -- Pneumatic post office clerks -- Sandmen -- Airplane detectors -- Child-labor professions -- Powder monkeys -- Pit boys -- Paperboys and papergirls -- Milkmen -- Telephone operators -- Film interpreters -- Quatorzïmes (Fourteenths) -- Factory readers -- Elevator operators -- Human computers -- Video-rental clerks -- Endangered professions.

Gladiators fought for glory. Ice harvesters chopped up lakes. In the USA, human computers, called rocket women, calculated the paths of spaceships with pen and paper. All these jobs really existed. Now they are gone. This is a book of extraordinary periods in history on six continents. It spans the centuries of the professional fartists and the walking toilets, of the brave riders of the Pony Express, and the lazy ornamental hermits. Marvel at Germany's feared coffee sniffers and London's dreaded executioners.

Meister, Michael.

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