This book offers a re-creation of the final portion of Amelia Earhart's around-the-world flight, taking into consideration over 20 years of research and little-known documents and reports. The Longs, a husband-and-wife team of aviation experts, conclude that Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan ran out of gas close to Howland Island in the ...
Nathan Heller is a fictional P.I. with an impressive historical resume that includes solving the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Huey Long assassination, and putting Al Capone behind bars. Now he looks to discover just what happened to Amelia Earhart after she left on her final, fatal flight.
This definitive biography of aviation legend Amelia Earhart delivers a brilliantly researched report on Earhart's life--from her tomboy childhood and early fascination with flying, her peculiar business/matrimonial realtionship with publisher G.P. Putnam to her consuming quest for avaiation fame.
She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the "What Happened to Amelia Earhart?" myth by disclosing who Earhart really was--a woman of three centuries, born in the 19th, ...
Based on ten years of research, during which Randall Brink brought suits against the government, interviewed key witnesses willing to talk for the first time, reinterpreted photos and technical data, and made forays into the equatorial islands of the Pacific, Brink meticulously supports his shocking claim: Earhart's last flight was for a mission ...
The legend of Amelia Earhart has grown so large that this book, her account of her first flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, is a refreshing glimpse into her remarkable spirit of adventure. In simple, candid prose, Earhart recounts the events in her life that led to her interest in flying. Dropping out of high school to help with the war ...
This picture-book biography of Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across the Atlantic solo who mysteriously disappeared, features full-color illustrations.
A fictional account of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, as told by the aviatrix herself. She details her love of flying, her aspirations as a child, her relationship with her husband G. P. Putnam, as well as with Fred Noonan, her navigator, and the notorious disappearance itself.
Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Compiled here are dispatches, letters, diary entries and charts she sent to her husband at each stage of her trip.
On July 2, 1937, aviatrix Amelia Earhart mysteriously vanished. This biography follows Earhart from her first sight of an airplane at the age of 10 to the last radio transmission she made before she disappeared. Illustrated with original artworks and contemporary photos.
A fascinating look at the life of a remarkable woman and the unsolved mystery surrounding her disappearance during her attempt to fly around the world in 1937. Photographs.
Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937) earned her pilot's wings in her early twenties and became the best-known female aviator of her time-probably of all time. In 1928, as a passenger in the Fokker tri-motor "Friendship," she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Four years later, she flew the ocean solo, duplicating Charles ...
At an early age, Amelia Earhart showed herse lf to be adventurous and daring, but her interest in flying did not develop until she worked as a nurse in Toronto. She had a number of firsts, including being the first woman to f ly solo across the Atlantic. '
Profiling the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, this age-appropriate biography explores Earhart's early years as an aviation pioneer and her mysterious disappearance in 1937. Illustrations.
Introduce children to the lives and achievements of pioneering men and women from diverse cultures, eras, and fields with Rookie Biographies "TM," the new series that helps emergent readers get to know the people who shaped our world! You've heard about America's Wild West pioneers. Now read about a pilot from the 1920s and '30s whose bravery and ...
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