Amelia Earhart's Shoes

by King, Thomas F.

• ISBN13: 9780759101302
• ISBN10: 0759101302
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Altamira Pr

Summary

In this spellbinding book, these scholars offer tantalizing evidence that the First Lady of the Air and her copilot Fred Noonan landed on a deserted tropical island but perished before they could be rescued.

Author Biography

Karen Ramey Burns is a consulting forensic anthropologist based at the University of Georgia specializing in human identification.

Table of Contents

Where in the World Is Amelia Earhart?	1	(8)
The Lady in Question	9	(7)
The Navigator and the Airplane	16	(9)
Disappearance	25	(12)
After the Search: Assumptions, Assertions, and Conspiracy Theories	37	(10)
Getting Hooked on Earhart	47	(16)
McKean, Gardner, and the PISS	63	(14)
First Time on Niku	77	(18)
Can't Find That Train	95	(15)
Hope Springs Eternal	110	(9)
The Grave, the Skin, and the Shoes	119	(10)
``We Did It!'' or Not	129	(14)
The Skeptic and the Kiwis	143	(6)
Back to the Windward Side	149	(11)
The Shattered Shores of Niku	160	(16)
Harassed by Hina, Favored in Funafuti	176	(11)
After the Storm	187	(9)
Kanton in the Rain	196	(10)
Bones for Real	206	(16)
Flesh on the Bones	222	(13)
Whose Bones, and Where?	235	(14)
Meanwhile	249	(10)
Where the Plane Came Down	259	(19)
Trying to Make Sense of It All	278	(7)
What Happened on the Night of July 2?	285	(21)
And Then? And Now?	306	(27)
Acknowledgments	333	(8)
Notes	341	(16)
Bibliography	357	(8)
Index	365	(10)
About the Authors	375