Amelia Earhart
Subtitle: The Sky's No Limit (American Heroes)
Publisher: Forge Books
Published: February 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780765310613
Subjects: Aircraft: general interest; Biography: general; Women air pilots; Biography/Autobiography; Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Women; United States; Earhart, Amelia,; Aviation - History; Biography & Autobiography / General; General; 1897-1937; Air pilots
First sentence: The endless black ocean deepened the bleak loneliness Amelia Earhart felt that May night in 1932.
Description: Biography of Amelia Earhart, an aviatrix who received the Distinguished Flying Cross and began championing the efforts of women throughout the world to explore careers -- especially in aviation. Tragically, just days before her fortieth birthday, Earhart and her plane vanished en route to tiny Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean as she neared the end of a round-the-world journey.