Daughter of the Sky: The Story of Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart refused to live small. In an age when women were expected to tend gardens and host salons, she climbed into open-cockpit biplanes and chased storms that grounded male pilots. This biography traces her journey from a Kansas tomboy who built her own roller coaster to the most famous woman in the world, setting altitude records and defying conventions with equal ferocity. Paul L. Briand Jr. captures not just the achievements but the hunger that drove them. Here is a woman who married a publisher but kept her own name, who loved solitude yet craved crowds, who spoke of death with eerie familiarity before vanishing into the Pacific. Her 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe ended in mystery, but her defiance remains undimmed. She flew into legend, and she never came back.