Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance

Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1591143195
Manufacturer: US Naval Institute Press
Average Customer Review: (From 16 total reviews)
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Editorial Reviews

Book Description:
In the seventy years since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during a flight over the Central Pacific, their fate has remained one of history’s most debated mysteries. Dozens of books have offered a variety of solutions to the puzzle, but they all draw on the same handful of documents and conflicting eyewitness accounts.

Now a wealth of new information uncovered by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) allows this book to offer the first fully documented history of what happened. Scrupulously accurate and thrilling to read, it tells the story from the letters, logs, and telegrams that recorded events as they unfolded. Many long-accepted facts are revealed as myths.

Author Ric Gillespie, TIGHAR’s executive director, draws on the work of his organization’s historians, archÃ¦ologists, and scientists, who compiled and analyzed more than five thousand documents relating to the Earhart case. Their research led to the hypothesis that Earhart and Noonan died as castaways on a remote Pacific atoll. But this book is not a polemic that argues for a particular theory. Rather, it presents all of the authenticated historical dots and leaves it to the reader to make the connections. In addition to details about the Earhart’s career and final flight, the book examines her relationship with the U.S. government and the massive search undertaken by the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy.

For serious students of Earhart’s disappearance, an accompanying DVD reproduces the documents, reports, and technical studies cited in the text, allowing instant review and verification of the sources.

Customer Reviews

Facts by Peter Boor
Ric Gillespie has clearly presented the never-before accumulation and coordination of the many aspects of AE’s last flight. The radio messages especially, received after her disappearance, when compiled as Gillespie has done, point to a quite different conclusion than the US Navy/Coast Guard one of 1937. Any student of AE’s disappearance needs to study this book.

Well documented account of A.E.’s disappearance by Cornerstone
This book covers Amelia Earhart’s final flight in far greater detail than any other book. The author has obviously done his research. I would recommend also buying Amelia Earhart’s shoes to read after you are done with this one. It starts where this book leaves off, detailing research as to where exactly she landed. The authors of that book and the author of this one belong to the same organization (TIGHAR) which has research the Amelia Earhart disappearance for years.

Fascinating Reading by Prairieman66
I first became interested in the Earhart mystery after seeing a National Geographic special on the subject. Wanting to learn more I decided to purchase this book.

The main premise of the book is that Earhart crash landed her plane on Gardner Island (south of Howland Island) and for a time survived. This book is fascinating reading because the author spends the majority of the book taking the reader through the exhaustive search conducted after Earhart failed to arrive at Howland Island and presents evidence that radio siganls likely from Earhart, converged on a spot near Gardner Island. A CD with supportive evidence is included with the book

I find the theory presented by Mr. Gillespie as a very plausible explanation of Earhart’s disappearance. The only other alternative being that Earhart ran out of fuel and ditched at sea.

As one reads this book, the depth of the tragedy becomes apparent because if the radio transmissions were from Earhart, then there existed a window of opportunity to rescue her.

Overall, Fascinating reading and well presented.

Well researched by Ron Skala
The subject of Amelia’s last flight is smothered in rumor and theory. The great thing about this book is that the author presents the facts in detail. Lots of footnotes and a comprehensive collection of all the known tidbits. You can draw your own conclusions on the basis of those facts you happen to believe. An honest presentation of facts about the missing pilot and navigator, what an idea!

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