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Amelia Earhart: A Biography
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Artikel-Nr:
9781560987253
Veröffentl:
1996
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.10.1996
Seiten:
344
Autor:
Doris L. Rich
Gewicht:
474 g
Format:
231x153x25 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Doris L. Rich's varied career as a reporter, writer, photographer, and teacher has taken her all over the world, from Michigan to Guam, Korea, Shanghai, Bangladesh, and Africa. She is also the author of Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator (Smithsonian, 1993).
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. She set record after record among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the What Happened to Amelia Earhart? myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.
A biography of the famous aviatrix who disappeared in the South Pacific on an around-the-world flight attempt in 1937