- 1Dedication
- 2Acknowledgment
- 3The Steeple-Climber
- 4II — How They Blew Off the Top of a Steeple With Dynamite
- 5III — The Greatest Danger to a Steeple-Climber Lies in Being Startled
- 6IV — Experience of an Amateur Climbing to a Steeple-Top
- 7The Deep-Sea Diver
- 8II — A Visit to the Burying-Ground of Wrecks
- 9III — An Afternoon of Story-Telling on the Steam-Pump “Dunderberg”
- 10IV — Wherein We Meet Sharks, Alligators, and a Very Tough Problem i…
- 11V — In Which the Author Puts on a Diving-Suit and Goes Down to a Wreck
- 12The Balloonist
- 13II — Which Treats of Experiments in Steering Balloons
- 14III — Something About Explosive Balloons and the Wonders of Hydrogen
- 15IV — The Story of a Boy Who Ran Away in a Big Balloon
- 16The Pilot
- 17II — Which Shows How Pilots on the St. Lawrence Fight the Ice-Floes
- 18III — Now We Watch the Men Who Shoot the Furious Rapids at Lachine
- 19IV — What Canadian Pilots Did in the Cataracts of the Nile
- 20The Bridge-Builder
- 21II — The Experience of Two Novices in Balancing Along Narrow Girder…
- 22III — Which Tells of Men Who Have Fallen From Great Heights
- 23The Fireman
- 24II — What Bill Brown Did in the Great Tarrant Fire
- 25III — Here We Visit an Engine-House at Night and Chat With the Driver
- 26IV — Famous Rescues by New York Fire-Boats From Red-Hot Ocean Liners
- 27The Aërial Acrobat
- 28II — About Double and Triple Somersaults and the Danger of Losing H…
- 29III — In Which the Author Tries His Hand With Professional Trapeze…
- 30IV — Some Remarkable Falls and Narrow Escapes of Famous Athletes
- 31The Wild-Beast Tamer
- 32II — Methods of Lion-Tamers and the Story of Brutus’s Attack on Mr.…
- 33III — Bonavita Describes His Fight With Seven Lions and George Arst…
- 34IV — We See Mr. Bostock Matched Against a Wild Lion and Hear About…
- 35V — We Spend a Night Among Wild Beasts and See the Dangerous Lion B…
- 36The Dynamite Worker
- 37II — We Visit a Dynamite-Factory and Meet a Man Who Thinks Courage…
- 38III — How Joshua Plumstead Stuck to His Nitroglycerin-Vat in an Exp…
- 39The Locomotive Engineer
- 40II — We Pick Up Some Engine Lore and Hear About the Death of Giddings
- 41III — Some Memories of the Great Record-Breaking Run From Chicago t…
- 42IV — We Hear Some Thrilling Stories at a Roundhouse and Reach the E…
Careers of Danger and Daring
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