{"title":"Lori Van Pelt","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"amelia-earhart-book-lori-van-pelt-9780765324832","title":"Amelia Earhart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA exciting new biography of America's first lady of flight.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As a tomboy growing up in Kansas, Amelia Earhart delighted in trying new and risky things, once even building a roller-coaster in her grandparents' backyard. In her 20s she fell in love with flight while watching an aerobatics exhibition and grew even more enthralled when she took her first airplane ride.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At age 24 she earned her pilot's wings and 1928 took part in the transatlantic \"Friendship\" flight. Her willowy build, wholesome smile, and tousled blonde hair invited comparison to the celebrated pilot Charles Lindbergh, and \"Lady Lindy\" charmed the public with her unassuming manner.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lori Van Pelt's \u003ci\u003eAmelia Earhart: The Sky's No Limit\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers through Earhart's career triumphs and tragedies. 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In 1928, as a passenger in the Fokker tri-motor \"Friendship,\" she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Four years later, she flew the ocean solo, duplicating Charles Lindbergh's much-heralded 1927 flight. During her two-decade career as a pilot, Earhart set altitude records, speed records, and transcontinental flight records and was the first person to solo the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to California, and the first to fly an autogiro (predecessor to today's helicopter) across the country. In 1937, Earhart attempted to fly around the world at the Equator but, just days before her fortieth birthday, she vanished, together with navigator Fred Noonan, en route to tiny Howland Island in the Pacific. President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the largest ocean search ever undertaken but no trace of the Lockheed Electra nor of Earhart and Noonan was found. The circumstances of their disappearance have yet to be unravelled but searches by independent individuals and groups continue, and the new technologies being employed may eventually solve the mystery.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49901592346897,"sku":"CIN0765310619G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0765310619.jpg?v=1750702585"},{"product_id":"pecker-s-revenge-and-other-stories-from-the-frontier-s-edge-book-lori-van-pelt-9780826334930","title":"Pecker's Revenge and Other Stories from the Frontier's Edge","description":"A collection of fourteen historical short stories featuring a variety of characters including miners, rodeo riders, railroad construction workers, young settlers, and others struggling with the conflicts and hazards of the nineteenth-century frontier. 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Van Pelt seamlessly incorporates stories passed down from her family, her husband's family, and from favourite legends of her childhood to shape a collection that blends the themes of the 1880s with the present.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51355168538897,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51355170930961,"sku":"CIN0826334938VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0826334938.jpg?v=1763479500"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-lori-van-pelt.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}