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    EAN: 8601409949246 SKU: WEIDENFELDANDNICOLSON-9780297829829 Category:
    In May 1930, Amy Johnson, a typist from Hull, took off from Croydon Airport with a thermos flask and a packet of sandwiches to try to beat the world solo record to Australia. She arrived, sun-blistered and with grease on her face, after weeks of flying a second-hand, open-cockpit biplane with no radio communication and the most basic of maps. Her adventures inspired a world struggling with the devastating effects of the Depression and made her into a celebrity overnight. She married Scottish playboy Jim Mollison, and together ‘The Flying Sweethearts’ broke records, mixed with the Mayfair Set, Amelia Earhart and Hollywood stars. But her tempestuous marriage was soon to crumble and she resumed her love affair with speed, taking up gliding and rally driving, and finding solace with a French millionaire. Her plane disappeared over the Thames Estuary during the Second World War, sparking rumours which are still being investigated today. Her body was never found.

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    Midge Gillies is a freelance journalist who has written for The Guardian, The Independent and the Financial Times, and is a creative writing tutor for Cambridge University Board of Continuing Education. She lives in Ely with her husband and young daughter. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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    PartNumber 9780297829829 Manufacturer Weidenfeld and Nicolson
    Author Gillies, Midge (Author), illus (Illustrator) ItemDimensions 6.14 x 1.57 x 9.21Inches
    NumberOfItems 1 binding Hardcover
    Amazon Category Books » Biographies EAN 9780297829829
    EAN 8601409949246 ISBN 0297829823
    ISBN 9780297829829      

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