WHO ON EARTH WAS AMELIA EARHEART? Pilot. Rebel. Legend. Vanished Without a Trace? Sometime in July 1937, in one or another of the infinite indifferent spaces of the Pacific Ocean, a voice flickered then vanished across a set of radio waves. It was Amelia Earhart, the best-known female flier in the world, trying to circle the globe. She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, had been on the last leg of their travels. And then—nothing. No signal. No trace. No wreckage. Just the unrelenting silence of open water. For decades, historians, scientists and conspiracy theorists have pored over maps, transcripts and atolls in search of the truth. Was she a castaway? A prisoner of war? A government spy? Those questions persist, not only because they are not yet answered, but because they stick also to somebody who, in her own lifetime, was already a myth on the move. What is it about Amelia Earhart that so captures the imagination? And of course, there’s the mystery of their disappearance. Vanishing points attract us. But even before she disappeared, she stood for something strange and electrifying: a woman who wouldn’t ask for permission. The 1920s and 30s were still the era when aviation was magic, when aviation was alchemy. Grab a copy of this book now!
