Recently I was invited to review an advance copy of a book about Amelia Earhart. My response was that I had no interest at all in reading yet another book about the so-called “mystery†of “what in the world could have happened to Amelia Earhart.†Seems like every five years or so here comes another book explaining what happened to Amelia.
Look, way back in 1937—long before GPS or even VORTAC—Amelia took off from Lae New Guinea to hunt for Howland Island, a tiny dot to hell and gone away in the middle of the Pacific. She never found it and everyone has been trying to figure out why ever since.
Well, they sent me the “advance uncorrected proofs†of this new book, Amelia Earhart: The Turbulent Life of an American Icon; I read it and enjoyed it very much. The author, Kathleen C. Winters, is an aviation historian, licensed pilot, and author of Anne Morrow Lindbergh: First Lady of the Air.
This book is the biography of Amelia Earhart. It tells us who she was and why she was as she was. It is a fascinating story well told. The story of Amelia’s last flight is included, of course, but Ms. Winters relates the known facts without trying to explain exactly what happened at the end. She leaves the reader free to make his/her own decision.
I recommend this book. Don’t look for it yet, but I’ll try to report in this blog when it is published.
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