Amelia Earhart: Little People, Big Dreams: 3

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The ocean was crossed by air non-stop several times since 1927 by two-man flying crews, but the technical difficulty and danger posed by this trip was demonstrated by the fact that numerous pilots had died trying to fly the route, and no one had flown the same trip solo. Meet three inspirational people from the world of literature: Maya Angelou, Anne Frank, and Jane Austen! Their philosophy was grounded on a desire to alleviate the suffering of the poor in industrialized cities. This new study contradicts the forensic analysis done in 1941 that claimed the remains belonged to a man. Of the many books I have read on the life and loss of Amelia Earhart “East to the Dawn” is (in my opinion) the most believable and factual “life history” of this dedicated aviation pioneer.

Earhart designed a line of "functional" women's clothing, including dresses, blouses, pants, suits, and hats, initially using her own sewing machine, dress form, and seamstress.so many people are only taught that she was the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and she was a great aviatrix and about her unfortunate death and nothing else. I don't want to read about every person that Amelia ever interacted with and what they wore and who their parents and grandparents were. S. Coast Guard cutter Itasca, anchored off shore of Howland, could not complete any direct two-way radio communication and neither Earhart nor Noonan were competent at Morse Code. I was glad when the book finally got into her actual preparations for the flight and the attempt itself, of course knowing the sad outcome, but not how it happened. She took her first flight in California in December 1920, with veteran flyer Frank Hawks, and declared, "As soon as I left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly.

Many of her accomplishments have been obscured by a growing obsession with the mystery of her disappearance. The plot of her life, the intriguing development of aviation, the pioneers of the age were all very interesting to me.Most of the world knows AE as a master aviator and an enigmatic legend that disappeared during an attempted round-the-world flight in 1937. This book does a good job of painting a three-dimensional portrait of her individuality, rather than another stereotypical description of the myth that evolved following her disappearance. Now, with East to the Dawn , Susan Butler offers the most comprehensive account to date of Earhart's extraordinary life—and finally sets the record straight. The only reason I did not rate this as a 5 is because it included a bit too much detail for my taste. Butler's belief is that communication and navigation problems, combined with crew fatigue, caused the plane to need to ditch in the ocean and sink after more than twenty-one hours of traveling toward Howland.