Download or read book Amelia Pilot in Pearls written by Shirley Dobson Gilroy and published by McLean, Va. : Link Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Amelia Earhart written by Doris L. Rich and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Quotable Amelia Earhart written by Amelia Earhart and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Adventure is worth while in itself."--Amelia Earhart, 1932 A fearless pioneer and a record-breaking pilot, Amelia Earhart engaged the nation and the world when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Today people remember her most for her disappearance on the last leg of her round-the-world flight in 1937. But more than a record breaker or a ghost lost over the Pacific, Earhart was ambitious, driven, and strong at a time when all three of these traits were considered unfeminine. Earhart's words and her example encouraged women to step beyond the narrow confines of their traditional roles. The Quotable Amelia Earhart brings together statements from a variety of sources and covers a wide range of topics, including Earhart's flights and her opinions on politics, work, religion, and gender equality. This definitive resource provides a concise, documented collection of Earhart's quotations so that her words, as well as her achievements, may inspire a new generation.
Download or read book Still Missing written by Susan Ware and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of Amelia Earhart's life as part of the history of women and American feminism.
Download or read book American Cycle written by Larry Beckett and published by Running Wild, LLC. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Cycle, a sequence of long poems inspired by our folklore and past, was written over a period of forty-seven years. Its forms are invented out of the traditions of the language, as appropriate to its subjects. Its styles are deeply connected to American speech: Spanish words loaned from Old California, the rough colloquialisms of Paul Bunyan, the power of African-American vernacular English in John Henry, the bare oratory of Chief Joseph, the old west phrases in Wyatt Earp, the circus ballyhoo of P. T. Barnum, the aviation jargon in Amelia Earhart, the backwoods dialect of Blue Ridge, and U. S. Rivers braids eyewitness history, legends, and old folk songs. Plot, as a literary device, is replaced with life, in varying shapes, and character, with the universe inside. The Cycle's themes are love, local mythology, history, justice,memory, accomplishment, time. I hear America singing, the varied carols. . .
Download or read book Last Flight written by Amelia Earhart and published by Crown. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Last Flight compiles the letters, diary entries and charts that she sent to her husband, G.P. Putnam at each stage of her trip. In her own words, these dispatches offer a window into her experience on this ground-breaking journey and illustrate her cheerful, charming nature. Her story continues to intrigue and inspire people to this day.
Download or read book THE WORLDLY TRAVELERS written by David L. Edgell Sr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhilarating Stories of Our Worldly Travelers The Worldly Travelers is an easy-to-read collection of rich historical profi les of courageous adventurers. As some of the most awe-inspiring travelers ever recorded, each man and woman, with their singular curiosity, resolution, and stamina, helped change the course of human history. Journey with them within the pages of this book; you’ll fi nd they were distinctive and colorful, and as they explored, made discoveries that have signifi cantly altered today’s approach to travel and discovery. PRAISE FROM READERS: “The Worldly Travelers off ers exhilarating stories about the most amazing travelers in the history of our planet. Dr. Edgell and Ms. Kogos make these stories easy to read, learn and most of all, enjoy!” The Honorable Frederick Bush, Former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Travel and Tourism “David Edgell never ceases to amaze, with his unique and fascinating approach to tourism. This is a great book for tourism people and for anyone interested in our world and the incredible people who have helped nations to interact with each over the centuries. Bonnie Kogos, collaborating with Dr. Edgell, adds a new enjoyable dimension. A must read.” Professor Geoff rey Lipman, Former President, World Travel & Tourism Council; President of SUNx Malta and Adjunct Professor at the Victoria University Melbourne.
Download or read book Pearl Harbor Attack written by Edwin P. Hoyt and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the attack on the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941, from the perspectives of both the United States sailors on the ground and the Japanese pilots on the attack.
Download or read book Never Give Up written by Paul F. Lambert and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a revered tribal elder whom Wiley Post taught to fly.
Download or read book East to the Dawn written by Susan Butler and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia Earhart captured the hearts of the nation after becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1928. And her disappearance on an around-the-world flight in 1937 is an enduring mystery. Based on ten years of research, East to the Dawn provides a richly textured portrait of Earhart in all her complexity. It's the perfect complement to the October 2009 movie Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, and Ewan McGregor.
Download or read book Amelia written by Donald M. Goldstein and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than an investigation of Amelia's disappearance, this intimate biography describes a compelling young woman who rejected society's traditional female role to pursue an exciting, path-breaking career, and who overcame the stigma such independence brought her. Amelia includes more than thirty photographs, some never before published.
Download or read book Flying Blind written by Max Allan Collins and published by Penguin Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970s Chicago, PI Nathan Heller is hired to solve the case of Amelia Earhart, the aviatrix who went missing on her round-the-world flight. A tall order, given the flight took place in 1937, but he succeeds nevertheless.
Download or read book Realizing the Dream of Flight written by Virginia Parker Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Realizing the Dream of Flight written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays in celebration of the Wright brothers' first flight 100 years ago grew out of presentations by a group of prominent scholars in 2003 at a conference sponsored by the NASA History Division and held at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio. The volume focuses on the careers of some of the many men and women who helped to realize the dream of flight both through the atmosphere and beyond. These accounts are original and compelling because they examine the history of flight through the lens of biography.
Download or read book Amelia Earhart written by Patricia Lakin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full biography of Amelia Earhart for the independent young reader tells about the many "firsts" accomplished by the world's most famous female pilot. Full color.
Download or read book Amelia Earhart written by Lori Van Pelt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted intrying new and risky things, once even building a roller-coaster in hergrandparents' backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight whilewatching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when shetook her first airplane ride.At age 24 she earned her pilot's wings and 1928 took part in thetransatlantic "Friendship" flight. Her willowy build, wholesome smile, andtousled blonde hair invited comparison to the celebrated pilot CharlesLindbergh, and "Lady Lindy" charmed the public with her unassuming manner. In 1937, Earhart wed publisher George Putnam, who managed her careerand promoted her zealously, ensuring her status as the world's best-knownaviatrix. The next year, she soloed the Atlantic, afterward receiving theDistinguished Flying Cross and began championing the efforts of womenthroughout the world to explore careers -- especially in aviation -traditionally held by men.Tragically, just days before her fortieth birthday, Earhart, hernavigator Fred Noonan, and their plane vanished en route to tiny HowlandIsland in the Pacific Ocean as they neared the end of their round-the-worldjourney. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the greatest land andocean search ever undertaken but no trace of the missing flyers or theircraft were ever found.To Amelia Earhart, even the sky was no limit to those with thecourage to test new boundaries.
Download or read book Amelia Earhart written by Jameson Anderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Amelia Earhart, the daring female aviator who disappeared while attempting to become the first woman to fly a plane around the world. Written in graphic-novel format.
