Amelia Earhart (1897–1937)
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(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-20901)
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZ62-20901)
Obras por Amelia Earhart
National Geographic Magazine 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contribuidor — 101 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Earhart, Amelia
- Nome legal
- Putnam, Amelia Mary Earhart
- Data de nascimento
- 1897-07-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1937-07-02
- Localização do túmulo
- Pacific Ocean
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Atchison, Kansas, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Pacific Ocean
- Locais de residência
- Atchison, Kansas, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Educação
- Central High School, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Hyde Park High School, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Ogontz School, Rydal, Pennsylvania, USA - Ocupações
- pilot
social worker - Relações
- Putnam, George P. (1) (husband)
Morrissey, Muriel Earhart (sister) - Organizações
- The Ninety-Nines: International Organization of Women Pilots
Voluntary Aid Detachment - Prémios e menções honrosas
- California Hall of Fame (2006)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Amelia Earhart was a pioneering American aviator and one of the world's most celebrated pilots of her time. She set many flying records and championed the role of women in aviation. She mysteriously disappeared in 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe from the Equator.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Also by
- 3
- Membros
- 309
- Popularidade
- #76,232
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 4
- ISBN
- 29
- Línguas
- 2
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
As you know (SPOILER ALERT) Amelia did not make it back to California. Therefore, this book just ends. And it was almost entirely not edited by her husband, George Putnam (whom Amelia fondly refers to as "Mr. Putnam" in the book, very lovey-dovey), except in a few locations. This makes the book a bit hard to read at times. The narrative structure isn't very consistent. You'll get a chapter that's almost exclusively about the flight from one point to another, and then get a chapter that's almost all about a certain location, and some chapters go between one and the other so quickly that it's hard to figure out what's going on. I get it, the lady was too busy flying to write a book! She didn't live to fix things here and there after the fact! So I'll try to cut her some slack, but the book does suffer for it.
I spent a lot of time reading the book thinking about all of the changes that have been made in aviation since the 1930s. What would Amelia think about GPS, checking sectional charts on your iPad as you fly, airplanes that can break the sound barrier, and wide-bodied aircraft that can carry more than 600 passengers nearly around the world in such a short amount of time? I will try not to take any of these amazing things for granted when I fly (in a tiny little composite sport aircraft that weighs about 600 pounds soaking wet and can only carry 22 gallons of gas)!… (mais)