Amelia Earhart: A Life in Flight

Description

Knowing the risks, but taking the chance anyway - that was the internal compass that guided Amelia Earhart. This fascinating biography captures Amelia's impressive sense of daring, evident from a very young age and her eagerness to promote women's abilities and desire to contribute to the world around her. She was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person to cross it twice by air. Her sudden disappearance over the Pacific on July 2, 1937 remains one of aviation's most haunting unsolved mysteries. Although her own story ended too quickly, she inspired women everywhere to reach goals previously undreamed of.

Author description

Victoria Garrett Jones is a freelance writer and former National Geographic Society researcher. This is her seventh publication for Sterling, including two in the Sterling Biographies[registered] series: Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson.

Stock Information

General Fields

• ISBN : 9781402751578
• Publisher : Sterling Juvenile
• Imprint : Sterling Juvenile
• Publication date : April 2009
• Dimensions : 190mm X 140mm X 13mm
• Produced in : United States
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : full colour throughout, includes illustrations, includes photographs
• BIC subject : Aerospace & aviation technology; History; Human geography / peoples of the world; True stories
• Pages : 128
• Dewey classification : 629.13092
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Victoria Garrett Jones