The Prodigal Parents [Hardcover]

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: sun dial press (1940)
• ASIN: B000HMNU3A
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, October 20, 2008

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Luthien - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fun Of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation (Paperback)

This book is a very good as an advertisement for women to become aviators, but not good as a biography of Amelia Earhart. Though, it has some biographical information that is not the books purpose so a lot of the book is about aviation and women aviators in general. This book is great to see how aviation and women were viewed in the 1920s and 1930s however. It also has a great scene showing the everyday persons reaction to the end of World War II from Earhart's first hand experience.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a must read, October 16, 2007

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Dr. Jennifer (claremont, california) - See all my reviews

we often do not have the chance to hear a person from our past but this book is a lyrical transcription of miss amelia earhart putnam. these are her words and observations and she lets us into her protected world to glimpse her passion. i recommend this book for anyone and everyone, the young child who seeks self esteem for the rough years of adolescence, the young adult trying to make their own way and even the well seasoned, this is a story of trimuph, something we are lacking in todays tabloid world.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Should've Based The Movie On This, November 13, 2009

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Tara (Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Fun Of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation (Paperback)

Unlike Earhart's other works, 20 Hours, 40 Minutes and Last Flight, which focus on flight details and aircraft specifications, this one is about HER and her life and her love of flying. Amelia began her life in Kansas and she became a nurse, a car mechanic, a social worker, a photgrapher, and even an airline vice president before she became America's aviation sweetheart. In this book she tells about those occupations and the impacts they had on her life and choices. She also tells a funny tale here and there like the time she was sledding and barely missed a head on collision with a horse, going between its legs as luck would have it. Another funny tale (that also involves a horse) is when she had one as a passenger!

I got bored, however, when Earhart started about the weather bureau and went on a bit too much about the autogiro (helicopter today). The last quarter saves it from becoming a four star book tho. When today someone says the words "women in aviation" we immediately think about Amelia. Amelia generously hands out the credit tho. In the last quarter, Earhart talks about numerous women and their accomplishments in aviation including but not limited to Ruth Nichols, Elinor Smith, Bobby Trout, Anne Lindbergh, Phoebe Omlie, and even a historical great, Ruth Law. There is also a chapter devoted to the early days of hot air ballooning and the ladies involved.

This is a must read for any and all aviation buffs. I will be reading it again.