Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance by Ric Gillespie
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- Pub. Date: September 2009
- 276pp
- Sales Rank: 28,683
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: September 2009
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Format: Hardcover, 276pp
- Sales Rank: 28,683
- ISBN-13: 9781591143185
- ISBN: 1591143187
Synopsis
New information uncovered by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery offers a fully-documented history of what actually happened to Earhart & her navigator Fred Noonan.
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Unlike other, more speculative books on the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, this premiere study by Gillespie (executive director, International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) offers a mind-bogglingly detailed perspective on the 16-day attempt to save both the aviatrix and her navigator, Fred Noonan, following their downing near Howland Island in the Pacific. Despite the deployment of numerous auxiliary vessels, a battleship, and an aircraft carrier, the flight and resulting rescue effort were doomed, according to Gillespie, for numerous reasons. These include micromanaging by Earhart's husband as well as the White House, U.S. Navy, Coast Guard, and Department of Interior; Earhart's questionable airmanship; Earhart's and Noonan's inability to cope with Morse Code; and the loss of her plane's receiving antennae at takeoff on Lae, New Guinea. Gillespie suggests that Earhart may have set down on Gardner Island in the Pacific's Phoenix Group and lived well past her disappearance, but he offers no definitive evidence. Although this book is soundly researched, its highly technical style and scientific approach may be challenging to the casual reader. Recommended for aeronautical collections and large libraries. John Carver Edwards, Univ. of Georgia Libs. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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September 05, 2006: As 'Finding Amelia' makes clear, the 1937 disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan was more about confusion than conspiracy. Ric Gillespie's spellbinding writing shatters a number of myths while presenting compelling evidence concerning what really happened on July 2, 1937 and afterwards. I found the chapter on Betty's Notebook to be particularly compelling--a Florida teenager may have been an 'earwitness' to SOS calls from Amelia Earhart and wrote down what she heard--but the entire book is an enthralling read. The accompanying DVD is an added bonus, as it contains scans of all of the listed sources. giving the reader the chance to assemble the pieces of this historical puzzle and reach their own conclusion.
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