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    American Heroes: Ameilia Earhart
    American Heroes: Ameilia Earhart
    American Heroes: Ameilia Earhart
    Audiobook5 hours

    American Heroes: Ameilia Earhart

    Written by Lori Van Pelt

    Narrated by Kris Faulkner

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    About this audiobook

    As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in trying new and risky things, once she even built a roller-coaster in her grandparent’s backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while watching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when she took her first airplane ride. At age 24 she earned her pilot’s wings and in 1928 took part in the transatlantic "Friendship" flight. In 1937 she married publisher George Putnam who managed her career and promoted her zealously, ensuring her status as the world’s best-known aviatrix. The next year she soloed the Atlantic, afterward receiving the Distinguished Flying Cross and began championing the efforts of women to explore careers traditionally held by men. Tragically, just days before her 40th birthday her plane vanished en route to a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean as she neared the end of her round-the-world journey. After an exhaustive search, no trace of the plane or Amelia was ever found.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks in Motion
    Release dateFeb 15, 2006
    ISBN9781596075078
    American Heroes: Ameilia Earhart

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