Amelia Earhart
Subtitle: beyond the grave
By: W.C. Jameson
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781589799905
Subjects: Air pilots; Biography; Women air pilots
Description: This "is a biography of the life--and disappearance--of Amelia Earhart, the pioneering aviator who was the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic in 1928. But did Amelia's plane really crash and sink in 1937, or was her fate entirely different"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174).
Table of contents: title: Woman of mystery, woman of contradictions; title: Origins; title: Enter George Palmer Putnam; title: Celebrity; title: Marriage; title: Hawaii to California; title: Flight around the world: preparation; title: Trouble with Japan; title: Enter Robert Myers; title: Oakland to Honolulu; title: The crash; title: A visit from Washington; title: Repairs; title: Fred Noonan; title: Reenter Putnam; title: Flight around the world: second attempt; title: Final preparations; title: From New Guinea to the rising sun; title: Flight questions; title: The mystery of Howland Island; title: The flight path; title: What happened to Amelia Earhart?; title: Downed at Mili Atoll; title: The search; title: The mystery of the Itasca logs; title: On to Saipan; title: The mystery letter; title: Death or transfer?; title: The mystery of Wilbur Rothar; title: Tokyo Rose; title: The mystery of the Morgenthau memo; title: The mystery at Aslito Airfield; title: The mystery of James V. Forrestal; title: The Electra mystery; title: Imprisonment; title: Repatriation; title: Enter Irene Craigmile Bolam; title: Enter William Van Dusen; title: Reenter Irene Craigmile Bolam; title: Postrepatriation; title: Reenter /William Van Dusen; title: The evidence; title: Analysis.