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Amelia Earhart

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780349121765

Price: £14.99

ON SALE: 6th August 2009

Genre: Biography & True Stories / Biography: General

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When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish – internationally famous, a daring and pioneering aviator, and ambassador extraordinary for the United States. Married to a man with a genius for publicity, her life was crowded, demanding and adventurous.

Mary S. Lovell’s superb biography examines a legend to reveal the pressures and influences that drove Amelia, and shows how her life, career and manner of death foreshadowed the tragedies and excesses of a media-dominated age.

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** 'Vividly evokes the tragic aspect of Amelia Earhart, as well as the moxie and grit of her personality and the hair-raising atmosphere of pioneering aviation
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
** 'The inevitability of a great romantic tragedy . . . In this book the little things and the great mingle and somehow explain each other. This is what biographies are about
GUARDIAN
** 'A private glimpse beneath the surface of public lives
THE TIMES