When Amelia Earhart disappeared on July 2, 1937, she was flying the longest leg of her around-the-world flight and was only days away from completing her journey. Her plane was never found, and for more than sixty years rumors have persisted about what happened to her. Now, with the recent discovery
Amelia Earhart: the mystery solved
โ Scribed by Earhart, Amelia;Long, Elgen M.;Long, Marie K
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2009;2000
- Tongue
- English
- Edition
- Simon & Schuster trade paperback ed
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
A re-creation of Amelia Earhart's final flight draws on a recently rediscovered report and lost radio logs of her last transmissions to explain what really happened when Earhart's plane vanished during her around-the-world flight.
โฆ Subjects
Aeronautics--Flights;Flights around the world;Biography;Earhart, Amelia, -- 1897-1937;Aeronautics -- Flights
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261 pages ; 22 cm
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