Lost Star: The Search For Amelia Earhart [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Brink, Randall

Verlag: W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1994

Beschreibung

Fine unread condition light brown boards/light brown cloth spine/blue spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Acknowledgments; Preliminary Page Quote; Introduction; Author's Note; Notes; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. The lower front board edge and lower front jacket edge have a small pencil eraser size indent (see photographs). The volume is otherwise in as new condition. First edition, first printing. " 'In this book, I deal only with the truth about Amelia Earhart's last flight, a truth withheld by our government because of a tenuous peace with Japan in the Pacific and concerns for the national security at home . Those who knew the truth, and held it close, knew that Earhart and Noonan had survived. They believed it was their duty to hide the truth, and so they did." - from the introduction and inner front jacket flap. "Over half a century after Amelia Earhart and her plane disappeared into the South Pacific, could the tantalizing mystery of what really happened to her and her navigator, Fred Noonan, be finally solved? Randall Brink, a former airline pilot and aviation editor who is also experienced in the ways of the Washington bureaucracy, has spent ten years of painstaking research in voluminous, still-classified military and government files to find an answer. After many dead ends, suits against a reluctant government, interviews with witnesses willing to talk for the first time, and forays into equatorial islands of the Pacific, Brink has unearthed documents and photographs that provide strong new evidence about the circumstances of the last flight. Using his aviation background to reinterpret photographs and technical data that have been misunderstood until now, he has meticulously pieced together the truth: Amelia Earhart disappeared while on an espionage mission over Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, a mission undertaken at the specific behest of the United States government. How that mission came about and why it has been covered up for more than fifty years is the fascinating story of Lost Star." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 005070

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lost Star: The Search For Amelia Earhart [...

Verlag: W.W. Norton & Company, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1994

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition