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The True Story of the Earhart Disappearance
Naval Institute Press
August 2006
On Sale: August 16, 2006
Featuring: Amelia Earhart
276 pages
ISBN: 1591143195
EAN: 9781591143192
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Biography
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. Dozens of books have
offered a variety of solutions to the puzzle, but they all
draw on the same handful of documents and conflicting
eyewitness accounts. Now a wealth of new information uncovered by the
International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR)
allows this book to offer the first fully documented history
of what happened. Scrupulously accurate and thrilling to
read, it tells the story from the letters, logs, and
telegrams that recorded events as they unfolded. Many
long-accepted facts are revealed as myths. Author Ric Gillespie, TIGHAR’s executive director, draws on
the work of his organization’s historians, archæologists,
and scientists, who compiled and analyzed more than five
thousand documents relating to the Earhart case. Their
research led to the hypothesis that Earhart and Noonan died
as castaways on a remote Pacific atoll. But this book is not
a polemic that argues for a particular theory. Rather, it
presents all of the authenticated historical dots and leaves
it to the reader to make the connections. In addition to
details about the Earhart’s career and final flight, the
book examines her relationship with the U.S. government and
the massive search undertaken by the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy. For serious students of Earhart’s disappearance, an
accompanying DVD reproduces the documents, reports, and
technical studies cited in the text, allowing instant review
and verification of the sources.
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