Amelia Earhart's Shoes Is the Mystery Solved?

by King, Thomas F.; Jacobson, Randall S.; Burns, Karen Ramey; Spading, Kenton

• ISBN13: 9780759101319
• ISBN10: 0759101310
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-20
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

Can modern science tell us what happened to Amelia Earhart? The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has spent fifteen years searching for the famous lost pilot using everything from archival research and archaeological survey to side-scan sonar and the analysis of radio wave propagation. In this spellbinding book, four of TIGHAR's scholars offer tantalizing evidence that the First Lady of the Air and her navigator Fred Noonan landed on an uninhabited tropical island but perished before they could be rescued. Do they have Amelia's shoe? Parts of her airplane? Are her bones tucked away in a hospital in Fiji? Come join their fascinating expedition and examine the evidence for yourself! The new paperback edition brings the search up to the present, including tantalizing evidence of campfires and charred bones found on remote Nikumaroro.

Author Biography

Thomas F. King is a well-known archaeological consultant specializing in the protection of cultural resources, the author of five books, and an archaeologist on the Amelia Earhart Project Randall S. Jacobson is a geophysicist with the U.S. Navy, an expert on oceanic seismic activity and naval mine-hunting technology, and the author of more than forty professional articles Karen R. Burns is a consulting forensic anthropologist specializing in human identification at the University of Georgia and has worked at crime scenes, mass-murder sites, cemeteries, and disaster scenes on five continents. She is the author of a major textbook on forensics Kenton Spading is an engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specializing in computers and remote sensing technology

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)
Epilogue: 2001 and Beyond	333	(42)
Acknowledgments	375	(8)
Notes	383	(24)
Bibliography	407	(10)
Index	417	(20)
About the Authors	437