Powder Puff Derby: Petticoat Pilots and Flying Flappers - Couverture souple

Walker, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0470851414 ISBN 13 : 9780470851418

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Book by Walker Mike

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Cowboy journalist Will Rogers called it the Powder Puff Derby.  After all, who had ever heard of such an outrageous idea as dames in planes?  Worse, dames racing planes 2,700 miles from California to Cleveland.  One reporter reckoned that far from finding the finishing lie, the ′girls′ would have trouble finding somewhere to powder their noses.  He was wrong and one sunny day in 1929 nineteen young women set out to prove it.

A whole generation of brave, even reckless, young women were breaking the ties that bound them to home, to convention and to the earth, and taking to the skies to claim their independence.  Among them Florence (Pancho) Barnes, Jessie (Chubbie) Miller, Hanna Reitsch, Bessie Coleman, Lady Mary Heath, Bobbi Trout, Amy Johnson and Amelia Earhart.

They were all stars and this is their story.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This book follows the early years of women aviators from the end of World War I through the madcap years of the 1920s to the establishment of aviation as a serious part of defense and commercial activities during World War II. Award–winning writer Mike Walker writes about a time of immense social and technical change that radically transformed the position of women and became the golden years for the development of aviation.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0470851414
• ISBN 13: 9780470851418
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304