EAST TO THE DAWN - The Life of Amelia Earhart by Susan Butler

Amelia Earhart loved challenges. She started flying in 1921 -- before parachutes were invented, taking her first lesson in a Curtis Canuck that came with an accompanying handbook which warned fliers "never forget that the engine may stop, and always keep this in mind." Most of the fliers who flew back then died in their planes. The pilot who owned the airfield where Amelia saw her first air meet, the pilot who taught her stunting, the pilot she sold her beloved first plane to--all fell to their death. By the end of the 1920s, Atlantic fever had gripped the world and Amelia rose to the challenge: she was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the first woman to fly it solo. She was a wonderful flier, setting many other records, and the battles she fought back then, the speeches she made designed to raise women's sights, are as stirring now as they were then.

"The single best book we now have on Earhart's life."
--Washington Post Book World

"Of the dozen or so books (mostly wild fantasies) that I have read about Amelia Earhart, Susan Butler's is the only one which re-created accurately that singular woman whom my father was in love with, as indeed was I, aged ten, when the lady vanished."
--Gore Vidal

Susan Butler is a journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times and many other publications. Her mother, Grace Liebman, was a 99 in the thirties. She flew out of Red Bank, New Jersey. She was born in 1905 and died in 1991.

Published:	Da Capo Press, New York
Price:	$20.00 Includes shipping
ISBN:	0-306-80887-0
This book can be purchased from:	Autographed copies can be purchased from Susan Butler, PO Box 832, Lake Wales, Florida 33859-0832 E-Mail: butler@taconic.net Or easttothedawn.com