Harriet Quimby America's First Lady of the Air (Aviation History Series)

By Ed Y. Hall

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885354037
• ISBN13: 9781885354037
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: The Honoribus Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Years Before Amelia Earhart, America's First Lady of the Air

Harriet Quimby is not only worthy of a good book, which Ed Y. Hall's is, but is worthy of a movie. Her story is touching and almost unbelievable. A beautiful and strikingly smart American girl is born under modest circumstances on a farm in Michigan. She starts her career in San Francisco as a journalist, writing for the city's Dramatic Review about the theater. She goes to New York to write for Leslie's Illustrated Weekly and eventually through pluck becomes the first licensed woman aviator in America. She gains immortal fame being the first woman to fly the English channel in a Bleriot aircraft. And then, all too soon, she dies in a fatal air accident over Boston Harbor in 1912. This book not only outlines her career, but documents her literary career and the mysteries of her birth and true age. Aviation and women's studies fans should find this interesting.