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20 hrs. 40 min. our flight in the Friendship. The American girl, first across the Atlantic by air, tells her story. / By Amelia Earhart. With 61 illustrations.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aeronautics--Flights.
- Aeronautics.
- Penn Provenance:
- Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 314 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 61 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 21 cm
- Manufacture:
- New York : The Knickerbocker Press.
- Other Title:
- Twenty hours forty minutes
- Our flight in the Friendship
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Toronto days
- Early aviation
- My own plane
- I shift my base to Boston
- Preparation
- Off for Newfoundland
- At Trepassey
- Across
- Journey's end
- Aviation invites
- Women in aviation
- Problems and progress
- Retrospect
- Wilmer Stultz: Pilot
- Louis Edward Gordon: flight mechanic.
- Notes:
- Front lining papers printed with facsimile of flight logbook in Earhart's hand.
- With half-title.
- "Copyright, 1928 by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Second printing, November, 1928."
- Introduction by Marion Perkins.
- Maroon cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Amelia Earhart on recto of frontispiece.
- OCLC:
- 344050
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