Things to Do, Places to Be: Unusual Jobs in Unlikely Places

From floating in space to climbing volcanoes, diving beneath the sea to working in the world's hottest deserts, explore extraordinary jobs in incredible places. This fact-packed book introduces careers you may never have heard of, in environments you might never have imagined. Meet astronauts who see sixteen sunrises a day, scientists studying glaciers in the polar winter, canopy researchers living high in the rainforest, underwater explorers uncovering shipwrecks, and desert astronomers gazing into space. Organized by dramatic environment-high up, icy cold, tropical, underwater, and desert dry-each chapter reveals what these jobs are really like and the surprising skills they require. This is an inspiring celebration of possibility for readers with big dreams.