Traces the life of the pilot who became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world.
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 ...
An easy-to-read biography of the female aviator who was the first woman to fly alone across the country.
The story of a pilot who broke records and made history.
Explore the inspiring life and mysterious disappearance of an American icon with this thrilling Amelia Earhart biography from the Great Lives series.
Baroness Raymonde de la Roche ( 1886–1919 ) was one of them . Taught to fly by the famous French aviator and plane designer Charles Voisin , la Roche qualified for an F.A.I. ( Fédération Aéronautique Internationale — the world air ...
Amelia Earhart was a woman of many "firsts.
Amelia Earhart, one of the most famous aviators in history, earned glory and celebrity in a profession dominated by men.
A biography of the aviator and women's rights advocate who disappeared while trying to fly around the world.
Presents the adventures of Amelia Earhart, and how she overcame an ordinary background to become an extraordinary aviator.
Documents the renowned female aviator's attainment of her pilot's license in her early twenties, her famous Atlantic crossings, her record-setting two-decade career, her tragic disappearance in 1937, and the theories surrounding her fate.