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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 10/17/1996
ISBN: 9781560987253
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d
Review Citations: New York Times 03/23/1997 pg. 28