Amelia Earhart: A Biography

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.

Author: Doris L. Rich
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Published: 10/17/1996
Pages: 344
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d
ISBN13: 9781560987253
ISBN10: 1560987251
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- History | United States | General
- Transportation | Aviation | History

About the Author
Doris L. Rich's varied career as a reporter, writer, photographer, and teacher has taken her all over the world, from Michigan to Guam, Korea, Shanghai, Bangladesh, and Africa. She is also the author of Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator (Smithsonian, 1993).