The Roaring 20: The First Cross-country Air Race for Women
- ISBN-10
- 0792253892
- ISBN-13
- 9780792253891
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- National Geographic Books
- Author
- Margaret Whitman Blair
Description
Celebrates the courage and drive of a collection of amazing aviators who took part in the first cross-country air race for women in 1929 from California to Ohio, featuring famed-flyers Opal Kunz and Florence Pancho Barnes.
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