Amelia Earhart: A Biography
- ISBN-10
- 1588343820
- ISBN-13
- 9781588343826
- Series
- Amelia Earhart
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 336
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-09
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution
- Author
- Doris L. Rich
Description
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.
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