My Review (5 stars out of 5)
(Audiobook)
Flying ace Amelia Earhart’s plane disappeared in 1937 during her attempt to fly around the world. The disappearance prompted a host of ideas and conspiracies about her fate. Former National Geographic reporter Rachel Hartigan explores Earhart’s life and investigates the many differing theories relating to her disappearance.
Subtitled Amelia Earhart’s Three Mysterious Deaths and One Extraordinary Life, this audiobook is expertly narrated by Helen Laser. The book alternates between AE’s childhood and her adventures in flying, and the various possible landing/crash sites of her twin engined Lockheed Electra and what may have become of Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan. One possibility is that the plane crash-landed on the Marshall Islands, where Ms Hartigan considers the possibility Earhart and Noonan were captured by Japanese soldiers. As conspiracy theories go, it’s no more ridiculous than some of the others, such as landing on Nikumaroro Island where she might have survived for a short while only to die of starvation. The book also delves into some of the more bizarre ideas, such as Earhart’s supposed secret life working for the US government.
A fascinating book that highlights the extraordinary life of an extraordinary woman.
Colin Garrow 