Amelia Earhart

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Location	Collection	Call #
Western Allegheny Community Library	Juvenile Biography	J BIO EARHART
Location	Western Allegheny Community Library
Collection	Juvenile Biography
Call Number	J BIO EARHART

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Summary

Traces the life of the famous pilot, focusing on her record setting flights in the 1920s and 1930s and her inspiration to other women.

Contents

"Just like flying!"
Amelia in the air
Flight plans
A taste for records
Around the world.

Published Reviews

Publisher's Weekly Review: "In this ruminative collection, Gopnik offers five essays on winter-exploring it as season and idea, elemental force and cultural influence. The New Yorker staff writer and author of Paris to the Moon composed these pieces for the 50th anniversary of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Massey Lectures. He acknowledges that "chapters are meant to sound vocal" and rough edges have been left in place. Readers will find pleasures of the serendipitous variety, including introductions to Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley, the underground architect Vincent Ponte, and the engineers who helped developed central heating. Gopnik's round-the-world tour of "romantic winter" covers more than 200 years in art, music, poetry, literature, and theology. In "Radical Winter," he describes the absurd courage of the men who raced for glory at the North and South Poles; in "Recreational Winter," he untangles the motley origins of ice hockey. Though the prose moves slowly at times, Gopnik leavens dense material with humor, and makes unwieldy concepts accessible through modern-day comparisons (consider Dickens the Francis Ford Coppola of his day). In the end, the lectures serve as Gopnik's equivalent to a Playmate's "turn-ons and turn-offs." That being the case, we'd call him a worthy Mr. December. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved."

Additional Information

Series	History maker bios.
Subjects	Earhart, Amelia, -- 1897-1937 -- Juvenile literature. Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Air pilots -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Publisher	New York :Barnes & Noble Books,2003
Contributors	Parlin, Tim.
Language	English
Notes	Published by arrangement with Lerner Publications Company.
Description	47 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.
ISBN	0760733872 9780760733875
Other	Classic View