Amelia Earhart
A Biography
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Transportation, Aviation, History, Americas, United States, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Doris L. Rich | ISBN: | 9781588343826 |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian | Publication: | July 9, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Doris L. Rich |
| ISBN: | 9781588343826 |
| Publisher: | Smithsonian |
| Publication: | July 9, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Smithsonian Books |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
