The plane ride lasted 10 minutes and she got attached almost instantaneously. Amelia’s first plane ride was at a Long Beach Air Show in 1920. Edwin being an alcoholic premeditated Amelia having extreme trust problems and it also made her very dependent throughout her life.Overall Amelia Earhart had a pretty normal childhood that led to her being a huge influence.Īmelia Earhart is most known for her flying. While in Iowa Amelia saw her first plane and strangely enough she didn’t think much of it. In 1909, Amelia and her sister went to live in Des Moines, Iowa because of their father’s job.

– The girl in brown who always walks alone.” She was a very tomboyish child and enjoyed all things dirty. Amelia was very shy in school and didn’t have many friends, but loved science and engineering. Amelia grew up in Atchison, Kansas with her grandparents and sister. Her parents were Edwin, a railroad lawyer, and Amy Earhart. Amelia Earhart, nicknamed Millie, was born July 24, 1897. Written at the height of the golden age of aviation, this book captures the spirit and enthusiasm of an incredible period of history.Every great story has to start somewhere and for Amelia it was like every other girl in the Midwest. In addition to her top-notch writing, Earhart included several facsimiles of the original pages of her flight log and a great many photographs from this historic flight. Earhart ends her book with a discussion of women, aviation, its history, its future and its problems contemporary to the time in which she wrote. Using expanded entries from her flight logbook (written in pencil and in the dark) Earhart relates the story of how she came to be connected with the flight of the Friendship and what she wanted to accomplish by it. She would eventually make the flight by herself, in 1935, but it is the flight described in 20 hrs, 40 min that launched her incredibly celebrity. Their landing in France propelled Earhart to international fame.

She was not flying, but served as navigator to pilot William Stultz. One year after Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic, Earhart made the journey described in this book. From a fascination with flying to her first lesson to her mastery of the mechanics of aviation, Earhart emerges as a pioneer and a character deserving of her tremendous fame and admiration. Dropping out of high school to help with the war effort (World War I) she found herself in Canada working as a nurse, riveted by stories of pilots flying over Europe. In simple, candid prose, Earhart recounts the events in her life that led to her interest in flying. The legend of Amelia Earhart has grown so large that this book, her account of her first flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, is a refreshing glimpse into her remarkable spirit of adventure.

20 Hours, 40 Min by Amelia Earhart