Roaring Twenty The First Cross-Country Air Race for Women

Name: Roaring Twenty The First Cross-Country Air Race for Women
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ISBN: 9780792253891

ISBN-10: 0792253892

ISBN-13: 9780792253891

Edition: 2006

Authors: Margaret Whitman Blair, National Geographic Kids Staff

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Adventure, excitement, and fearlessness take wing in the dramatic true story of the twenty aviatrixes who set off on the first Women's Cross-Country Air Derby. Readers will thrill to the feats of "the roaring twenty," the daredevil pilots who pioneered women's aviation in this 2800-mile race from Santa Monica, California, to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929. This cross-country odyssey was the first of its kind: nine days of grueling endurance that was dismissively dubbed the "Powder Puff Derby" by the press. Yet the American public was captivated. The nation already knew and loved Amelia Earhart, and it soon warmed to such colorful characters as the cigar-smoking stunt flyer Florence Pancho…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Publication date: 2/14/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Size: 7.75" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword


Prologue


Map of the Race



The "Roaring" Twenties



The Rules of the Race



Who Entered-and Why



And They're Off!



Sabotage?



Tragedy on Day Three



Troubles in Texas



"Please God, Let Them All Be Cows!"



Troubles All the Way Through to the End



A Sisterhood of Flyers: The Ninety-Nines


The Roaring Twenty


Women's Firsts in Aviation: A Timeline


Bibliography


Resource Guide


Sources


Illustrations Credits


Index