Author | Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937.
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Title | 20 hrs. 40 min. : our flight in the Friendship : the American girl, first across the Atlantic by air, tells her story / by Amelia Earhart.
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Published | New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.
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Description | 314 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, facsimiles (1 double) ; 21 cm.
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General Note | Vault copy contains possible original signature of author. Facsimiles on lining-papers.
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Formatted Note | Contents: Toronto days -- Early aviation -- My own plane -- I shift my base to Boston -- Preparations -- Off for Newfoundland -- At Trepassey -- Across -- Journey's end -- Aviation invites -- Women in aviation -- Problems and progress -- Retrospect -- Wilmer Stutz, pilot -- Louis Edward Gordon, flight mechanic.
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Summary Note | Summary: Amelia Earhart recounts the June 1928 transatlantic flight which made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air. |
Subjects | Aeronautics -- Flights. Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937. Transatlantic flights. Women air pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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Other Titles | Twenty hours, forty minutes Our flight in the Friendship
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LC Card Number | 28-21910 |
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| WRHS Research Library: TL 721 E13 A3 mq32101: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| WRHS Research Library: TL 721 E13 A3 Vault CA-1904425: Rare book room, LC class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
[Record 24982] |
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