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Finding Amelia

Author : Ric Gillespie

Publisher : Naval Inst Press

Page : 276 pages

File Size : 31,47 MB

Release : 2009-09-01

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9781591143185

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For more than 70 years, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during a flight over the Central Pacific has remained one of history's most debated mysteries. Revealing new information uncovered by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), this book offers the first fully documented history of what happened. An accompanying DVD reproduces the documents, reports, and technical studies cited in the text, allowing instant review and verification of the sources.



Still Missing

Author : Susan Ware

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 308 pages

File Size : 47,72 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780393312553

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Book Description

An analysis of Amelia Earhart's life as part of the history of women and American feminism.



Lost Star

Author : Randall Brink

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 31,36 MB

Release : 1995-06

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780393313116

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Book Description

Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937; Search and rescue operations.; United States Government information; Air pilots.





Amelia Lost

Author : Candace Fleming

Publisher : Schwartz & Wade

Page : 129 pages

File Size : 10,13 MB

Release : 2012-01-25

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0307980219

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From the acclaimed author of The Great and Only Barnum—as well as The Lincolns, Our Eleanor, and Ben Franklin's Almanac—comes the thrilling story of America's most celebrated flyer, Amelia Earhart. In alternating chapters, Fleming deftly moves readers back and forth between Amelia's life (from childhood up until her last flight) and the exhaustive search for her and her missing plane. With incredible photos, maps, and handwritten notes from Amelia herself—plus informative sidebars tackling everything from the history of flight to what Amelia liked to eat while flying (tomato soup)—this unique nonfiction title is tailor-made for middle graders. Amelia Lost received four starred reviews and Best Book of the Year accolades from School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Horn Book Magazine, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.



I Was Amelia Earhart

Author : Jane Mendelsohn

Publisher : Vintage

Page : 163 pages

File Size : 15,99 MB

Release : 2011-12-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307814203

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Book Description

In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . . There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas. There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"). And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke"). And, most important, there is Noonan . . .



Eyewitness

Author : Thomas E. Devine

Publisher : American Traveler Press

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 49,53 MB

Release : 1987

Category : Transportation

ISBN : 9780939650484

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Devine presents the most comprehensive collection of research done to date on the great aviation mystery. He believes he witnessed the burning of Earhart's Electra on Saipan in 1944, torched apparently on order of the US Secretary of the Navy.



Amelia Earhart's Shoes

Author : Thomas F. King

Publisher : Rowman Altamira

Page : 456 pages

File Size : 40,97 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780759101319

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Can modern science tell us what happened to Amelia Earhart? The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has spent fifteen years searching for the famous lost pilot using everything from archival research and archaeological survey to side-scan sonar and the analysis of radio wave propagation. In this spellbinding book, four of TIGHAR's scholars offer tantalizing evidence that the First Lady of the Air and her navigator Fred Noonan landed on an uninhabited tropical island but perished before they could be rescued. Do they have Amelia's shoe? Parts of her airplane? Are her bones tucked away in a hospital in Fiji? Come join their fascinating expedition and examine the evidence for yourself The new paperback edition brings the search up to the present, including tantalizing evidence of campfires and charred bones found on remote Nikumaroro. Visit the Authors' Web page for more information.



Amelia Earhart

Author : Lori Van Pelt

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 26,93 MB

Release : 2006-06-27

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 9780765310620

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Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) was the best-known female aviator of her time. She set altitude records, speed records, and transcontinental flight records. Earhart championed the efforts of women in aviation. In 1937, she attempted to fly around the world but, just days before her fortieth birthday, vanished, together with navigator Fred Noonan, in the Pacific en route to tiny Howland Island. Searches continue, and the new technologies being employed may eventually solve the mystery.



Amelia Earhart

Author : Kathleen C. Winters

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 258 pages

File Size : 29,83 MB

Release : 2010-11-23

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0230112293

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When Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific in 1937, she was at the height of her fame. Fascination with Earhart remains just as strong today, as her mysterious disappearance continues to inspire speculation. In this nuanced and often surprising biography, acclaimed aviation historian Kathleen C. Winters moves beyond the caricature of the spunky, precocious pilot to offer a more complex portrait. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, airline records, and other original research, this book reveals a flawed heroine who was frequently reckless and lacked basic navigation skills, but who was also a canny manipulator of mass media. Winters details how Earhart and her husband, publisher George Putnam, worked to establish her as an international icon, even as other spectacular pilots went unnoticed. Sympathetic yet unsentimental, this biography helps us to see Amelia Earhart with fresh eyes.