Astonishing and Extinct Professions: 89 Jobs You Will Never Do - Couverture rigide

Rottmann, Markus; Meister, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3907293932 ISBN 13 : 9783907293935

Editeur : Helvetiq, 2023

Synopsis

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 ...

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Markus Rottmann lives in Zurich with his wife and young daughter and writes for books, magazines, the stage and museums. He collaborates with photographers, directors, illustrators, artists and, recently, with a magician. He writes a regular column on mountain literature and has even produced and audio guide to the Zurich cemetery.

Michael Meister an award-winning Swiss illustrator. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and many other publications around the world. He has illustrated five books, including Swisstory, which won The Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. He lives with his family near Basel, Switzerland.

Ashley Curtis was born in California and grew up in Bern, Switzerland, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has have lived in Switzerland for the last 25 years. He holds B.A. and M.A.R. degrees from Yale University and is the author of Alles ist beseelt (Kommode Press, 2021), Hexeneinmaleins (Kommode Press, 2019), Error and Loss: A License to Enchantment (Kommode Press, 2018), "O Switzerland!" (Bergli Books, 2018), and Why Do the Swiss Have Such Great Sex? Extraordinary Answers to 66 Improbable Questions about Switzerland (Bergli Books, 2018).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Helvetiq
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3907293932
• ISBN 13: 9783907293935
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: P M W SARL; mondji.alagbe@wilsonjeux.fr; ; 97 AV EMILE ZOLA; PARIS 15; 75015; France