22 October 1997
Stopover in Hong Kong on the way to Australia
Location:
Hong Kong
01 September 1996
Book Review/Recensione: I was Amelia Earhart, by Jane Mendelsohn, ****
Recensione in italiano di seguito
Synopsis
A fictitious account of Amelia Earhart's last flight, with flashbacks to her childhood and difficult marriage. Amelia and her raffish, drunken navigator, Noonan, crash-land on a desert island. They fight, touch madness and finally fall in love, before taking off again on only half a tank of petrol.
From the New York Times, 3 July 1937 |
Synopsis
A fictitious account of Amelia Earhart's last flight, with flashbacks to her childhood and difficult marriage. Amelia and her raffish, drunken navigator, Noonan, crash-land on a desert island. They fight, touch madness and finally fall in love, before taking off again on only half a tank of petrol.
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LIBRI,
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Location:
Pacific Ocean
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