East to the Dawn - The Life of Amelia Earhart

Informationen zum Autor Susan Butler is a journalist who lives in Central Florida. Klappentext Amelia Earhart had glamour, charm and self-confidence, and she captured the world's attention when she became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Her mysterious disappearance on her around-the-world flight in 1937 left many questions unanswered. This definitive biography, and the inspiration for the upcoming feature film Amelia, sets the record straight and reveals Earhart in all her complexity. Zusammenfassung Amelia Earhart (1897-1937) captured the hearts of America after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928. Nine years later, her disappearance on an around-the-world flight brought her extraordinary life to an abrupt and mysterious end. Based on a decade of archival research through Earhart's letters, journals, and diaries, and drawing on interviews with the aviator's friends and relatives, East to the Dawn provides the most authoritative and richly textured account of both Earhart's record-setting aviation career and her personal life: her early years with her grandparents, her experiences as a nurse and social worker, her famous marriage to publisher George Putnam, and her secret affair with Gene Vidal, head of the Bureau of Air Commerce. As the Los Angeles Times raved, East to the Dawn is a "fully realized portrait of a truly remarkable woman."

Product details

• Authors: Susan Butler, Butler Susan
• Publisher: Dacapo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2009
• EAN: 9780306818370
• ISBN: 978-0-306-81837-0
• No. of pages: 520
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 225 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Motorsport, motorcycle sport, bicycle sport, aviation sport; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biographien (div.), Earhart, Amelia, TRANSPORTATION / Aviation / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Aviation & Nautical, Biography: historical, political and military, Aircraft and aviation