Finding Amelia, Ric Gillespie
Finding Amelia, Ric Gillespie
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Finding Amelia
The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance

Author: Ric Gillespie

Narrator: Mike Lenz

Unabridged: 11 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/14/2022

Synopsis

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 despite dozens of books offering solutions. This book is different. It draws on thousands of never before published primary source documents to present a narrative that corrects decades of misconception. Ric Gillespie offers a very realistic picture of Earhart, her attempted world flight, the events surrounding her disappearance, and the U.S. government’s failed attempt to find her. Scrupulously accurate yet thrilling to read, the book is based on information uncovered by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR). Gillespie, TIGHAR's executive director and a former aviation accident investigator, notes that he does not argue for a particular theory but supports the hypothesis that Earhart and Noonan died as castaways on a remote Pacific atoll.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sherrie on July 25, 2018

Very detailed and a bit technical, giving a day by day account of the search for Amelia Earhart, s missing plane. So much effort went into the initial search, i was willing them to find her! I love an unsolved mystery!......more

Goodreads review by Steve on November 11, 2014

This is certainly a different take than Elgen Long's Amelia Earhart. Whereas Long assures us that Earhart and Noonan ditched and died within a 100-mile radius of Howland Island, and that the "mystery is solved", Mr. Gillespie leaves the mystery door open to a very wide extent. Long's book essentiall......more

Goodreads review by Jeff on October 10, 2019

I'm not an Amelia Earhart fan, but I found this book to be extremely informative regarding Earhart's final flight, the various radio transmissions believed to have been sent by Earhart for a few days after her disappearance, and the subsequent air/sea search. The author presents evidence suggesting......more

Goodreads review by David on October 26, 2007

I was put off with the beginning of this book, which contains much technical information about Amelia Earhart's preparations for her ill-fated around-the-world flight. Once the flight begins, however, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that all this technical information was now highly relevant-......more

Goodreads review by Shadira on January 29, 2023

Finding Amelia is an exhaustively researched account of the disappearance of famed aviator Amelia Earhart on 2 July 1937. A serious historical work, the book contains many details and documents, but author Ric Gillespie succeeds in making it approachable for the average reader. Executive director of......more

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