Amelia Earhart by Richard Tames
Part of a biographical series which looks at the lives and work of notable men and women and their effect on the world today. This book describes Amelia Earhart's flying career - how she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, and ends with the mystery surrounding her death. The text includes extracts from diaries, letters and quotations from contemporaries, sections on world events of the time, fact finder pages, and significant dates.