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A review by catlion27
Finding Amelia: The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance [With DVD] by Ric Gillespie
adventurous
challenging
informative
tense
medium-paced
5.0
This book gave me an obsession. Everybody I talked to while I was reading this book got to hear my latest Earhart anecdote. (My greatest apologies go to my dear husband, who was regaled nightly.)
There are so many astonishing things about the Amelia Earhart story in this book. The miscommunication, all the tiny things that went wrong but slowly added up, the telegrams, and infuriating decisions, and faint radio messages from Amelia and her navigator after they ran out of fuel and crashed on an island. Did the book get way in the weeds about radio frequencies? Oh yes. Was my attention glued to it anyway the entire time? Also yes.
I greatly appreciated how meticulously fact-checked everything was, and how the author detailed the primary source evidence, as well as providing probabilities when helpful.
This book was fascinating, gripping, frustrating, maddening. I would recommend to anyone who's ever wondered, "What *did* happen to Amelia Earhart, anyway?"
There are so many astonishing things about the Amelia Earhart story in this book. The miscommunication, all the tiny things that went wrong but slowly added up, the telegrams, and infuriating decisions, and faint radio messages from Amelia and her navigator after they ran out of fuel and crashed on an island. Did the book get way in the weeds about radio frequencies? Oh yes. Was my attention glued to it anyway the entire time? Also yes.
I greatly appreciated how meticulously fact-checked everything was, and how the author detailed the primary source evidence, as well as providing probabilities when helpful.
This book was fascinating, gripping, frustrating, maddening. I would recommend to anyone who's ever wondered, "What *did* happen to Amelia Earhart, anyway?"