The jobs we've lost are windows into the past
Gladiators fought for glory. Ice harvesters chopped up lakes. In the
USA, human computers, called rocket women, calculated the paths of the
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 detectives and London's dreaded
executioners.
The stories behind: Mandarins, Wailing women, Body snatchers,
Executioners, Whipping boys, Explorers, Walking toilets, Object
swallowers, Fartists, Powder monkeys, Armpit-hair pluckers and many
more...