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Earhart's account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, remains one of the most moving and absorbing adventure stories of all time. Compiled here are dispatches, letters, diary entries and charts she sent to her husband at each stage of her trip.
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Paperback, 140 pages
Published
December 22nd 2009
by Three Rivers Press
(first published 1937)
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Well, I'm not going to lie I was expecting the book to be a little more personable. It was a great book, but I wanted to know more of what she was feeling and even more about her relationship with her husband. I kept on trying to see if she were ever going to say that she missed him or thought about him from time to time. You know, something more on the romantic side? Which I don't think Amelia even thought like that. The book was mainly a log of her flying, landing and departing. On occasion sh
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This is a delightful account of Amelia Earhart's last big flight, around the world -- and necessarily an incomplete tale. It is told in the first person, and her voice is charming. She makes you feel like a close friend as she sends dispatches and updates from various stops around the world. In fact, she gathers such momentum and has such continued success that, even when you know how this story ends, it is wrenching to reach the last chapter and find -- nothing.
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Amelia's writing is lovely and quite descriptive. She doesn't allow the reader to get into her head as she doesn't divulge much about herself or her relationships with Fred Noonan and her husband George Putnam. This book is really not about her at all, it's about the flight, the lands she flew over. It's about the journey. Even when they have landing or taking off issues, when there are mechanical problems, when the weather is bad, when they have to change routes ...more
Amelia's writing is lovely and quite descriptive. She doesn't allow the reader to get into her head as she doesn't divulge much about herself or her relationships with Fred Noonan and her husband George Putnam. This book is really not about her at all, it's about the flight, the lands she flew over. It's about the journey. Even when they have landing or taking off issues, when there are mechanical problems, when the weather is bad, when they have to change routes ...more
The last book on the last flight. Last Flight is the last book written by Amelia Earhart, before her disappearance somewhere over the South Pacific. Here, she has reached the pinnacle of her flying career and her writing. Amelia wrote Last Flight before and during this last stunt flight of flying around the world, at the equator. Amelia, and her copilot, Fred Noonan, disappeared on the most difficult leg of the trip, from Lae, New Guinea, to Howland Island.
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It feels a little sacrilegious to not have loved this book. Amelia Earhart was an amazing woman, both as an aviator and as a woman blazing trails for other women in STEM (although they certainly didn't call it that back then). Reading about her desire to open up a makerspace (yes, I know I'm being anachronistic, you get the point) for women at Purdue was SO. FREAKING. COOL. And I have a feeling that, had Ameila made it back to California, all of her recollections about her groundbreaking flight
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I have always been fascinated by Amelia Earhart. I saw this book at a library book fair- very old, stamped discarded- and had to read it. Ameila was a very progressive woman, far ahead of her time. This book, which was really a travelogue of this last, ill-fated flight, showed her enthusiasm, courage and sense of adventure. She planned to return from her flight to Purdue University, where she hoped to encourage women to go into scientific fields. Womanhood lost a real trail blazer and a model fo
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This is an extraordinary book & a must for all interested in the history of aviation. Well before GPS and even before radio communication was reliable, Amelia Earhart set out, with her navigator Fred Noonan, from California to circumnavigate the globe as closely as possible to the Equator, in a twin-engined Lockheed Electra. As each section was completed, she posted back her account to her husband in the US. Who later collated it into ‘Last Flight’. The route followed took her first to Miami, th
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It is truly amazing that Amelia was able to document this trip the way she did. She was eloquent in her descriptions of so many places & able to convey so much about the different cultures she visited. What a tragedy that the journey ended prematurely. Even if you are only casually interested in her story I highly recommend reading this. Amelia Earhart was a trailblazer that wasn’t intimidated by anything & her loss was felt by millions.
It is truly amazing that Amelia was able to document this trip the way she did. She was eloquent in her descriptions of so many places & able to convey so much about the different cultures she visited. What a tragedy that the journey ended prematurely. Even if you are only casually interested in her story I highly recommend reading this. Amelia Earhart was a trailblazer that wasn’t intimidated by anything & her loss was felt by millions.
Excellent book showing a first person account of the tragic all the way to the last stop before disappearing. This book was not too long and was a pleasure to read. Anyone into aviation should read this book.
Q: Last Flight is a book that consists of diary entries and other notes compiled by a famous pilot before their mysterious disappearance in 1937. The book Last Flight came out after the disappearance of which famous pilot?
Quick and excellent read. Her language certainly dates her, but it is appropriate for the time. Amazing insights in a small volume.
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An interesting read - told in first person so it gives you a little bit of a glimpse into how she thought about things.
I learned a great deal more about Amelia than I knew before. One of our early women's rights advocates and amazing pilot.
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I feel like I got to know this wonderful and courageous woman who, until reading this book, was just a figure in history to me.
I don't know how they got the information to write the book.
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I liked it because it was Amelia Earhart, and let's face it - she was amazing. But, let's also face this, she was a pilot, not a writer. I wouldn't want a writer to fly a plane either. So, although it wasn't amazing writing, that's not what she set out to do anyway - she wanted to write a log of her travel around the world, and that's just what this is. Fairly interesting, but it's mostly details about her planes and her arrangements to get from country to country. It's kind of like watching the
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An interesting read, and important for Earhart devotees, but not necessarily the best overview for a reader new to the Earhart story. The book consists mostly of the notes and stories she sent back during the 40-odd days of her attempted flight around the world prior to her disappearance in 1937. She talks a lot about the aviation challenges they faced (lots of cleaning and refueling and mending) and the navigational methods they used. But it's not, of course, a full overview of her last flight
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If you wanna learn more about Amelia than just her flighing abilitys then you need to read this book. It feels like you go back in time when Amelia Earhart was born and go though her life. From her childhood, education, wishes and goals in life, and other jobs she might of had but that's not it you also learn how Amelia got so interested in flighing and how she got so famous. The tragic ending to Amelia sums it all up in the end. So it you are interested in Amelia this is the book for you!
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I have always been intrigued by Amelia's sense of adventure and views on life. The plan was to call this book "World Flight" but it was changed to "Last Flight" after her disappearance one her way to Howland Island in July 1937. Her husband, George Palmer Putnam, published it from her notes. She would send maps, notes, etc. back home during her round the world flight. It is good to read her own words and thoughts as she and Fred Noonan made their journey around the world.
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I loved reading this knowing they were her own words but tragedy covered every comment she made about the future - so sad. I'm anxious now to find a good companion book about the search - I'll go blog-surfing and see what I can find.
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This was a good book. Written by Amelia Earhart about her last flight around the world. She would send home her descriptions and notes throughout the trip. It got a little technical in parts for me, but it was interesting to see all the work that went into that trip.
Even when you know how it's going to end there's suspense. You begin to wonder if maybe this remarkable woman will pull it off anyway. Even as you hear her say, "next time" over and over again and wish you could tell her to do whatever it is right now.
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This was a great read but not quite as personal as I thought it would be. Amelia fans definitely should read this as she writes honestly about her flights leading up to her disappearance.
She was a pilot nit a writer but I was hoping it would be more personable.
Always been a fan of Amelia Earhart since I was a child. This book details her last flight. Wonderfully written book.
Really interesting to read the round-the-world flight from AE's point of view. :)
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So far really enjoying this!
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Amelia Mary Earhart (missing July 2, 1937, declared dead January 5, 1939) was a noted American aviation pioneer, and author. Earhart was the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of T
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