Amelia Earhart
A Biography
Smithsonian · Print & ebook · October 17, 1996
She died mysteriously before she was forty.
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- Who it’s for
- A biography that shifts attention from Earhart’s disappearance to her record-setting flights and public ideals.
- Themes
- Female aviation pioneer, Women's rights advocacy, Commercial air travel
- Genres
- Aviation & Nautical Lives, Women's Lives, Activist Lives
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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.
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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.
Beyond the Mystery
A biography that shifts attention from Earhart’s disappearance to her record-setting flights and public ideals.
Come here for
- Aviation history joined to a life in the women’s rights movement
- A portrait spanning three centuries of influence
Expect
- A focus on Earhart’s achievements over the mystery of her death
- An accessible biography grounded in extensive research
Where it sits
| Aviation & Nautical Lives | 89% |
|---|---|
| Women's Lives | 79% |
| Activist Lives | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Women's Lives
- U.S. History
- Aviation History
- Authors
- Doris L. Rich
- Publisher
- Smithsonian
- Published
- October 17, 1996
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Female aviation pioneer · Women's rights advocacy · Commercial air travel
- Reading lane
- Women's Lives