Astonishing and extinct professions: 89 jobs you will never do - markus rottmann

The jobs weve 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 Germanys feared coffee detectives and Londons 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 .