Amelia earhart biography book

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Amelia Earhart

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Doris L. Rich
Doris L. Rich's varied career as a reporter, writer, photographer, and teacher has taken her all over the world, from Michigan to Guam, Korea, Shanghai, Bangladesh, and Africa.

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[A] fast paced, richly detailed biography.

—Publishers Weekly

Ms. Rich vividly evoke[s] the tragic aspect of Amelia Earhart.

—New York Times Book Review, notable book

Earhart emerges as a complex, controversial, and fascinating flesh-and-blood woman of many facets. . . .Well-researched and intelligently written.

—Chicago Tribune

Defines Amelia Earhart by her courage, generosity, and determination, and not by the way her life ended.

—American Heritage

Rich's portrait reveals a determined, independent woman, brave enough ‘to go where no one had gone and to do what no one had done’ . . . [and] illuminates the public and private life of a legendary flier, bringing her back to earth as a courage
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"Amelia Earhart: A Biography" Rich Collection
Amelia Earhart () in was the first woman to fly (as a passenger) across the Atlantic, and in the first woman (and second person, after Charles Lindbergh) to fly solo and nonstop across that ocean. She flew many record flights, published several books, and accomplished much for women in aviation before attempting, on June 1, , an around-the-world flight from Miami, Florida, in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. She and navigator Frederick J. Noonan were flying from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island when they disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on July 2, An exhaustive sea and air search, ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt, was unsuccessful in locating Earhart and Noonan. Doris L. Rich () was a freelance journalist and photographer in Hong Kong from to She taught English in Bangladesh and Ghana before moving to Washington, DC in the late s. Her first book, Amelia Earhart: A Biography, was published by the Smithsonian Press i
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