The Lost Pilots: The Spectacular Rise and Scandalous Fall of Aviation's Golden Couple
Autor Corey Mead Holter Grahamen Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 21 mai 2018
Baker Street, London, June 1927: twenty-five-year-old Jessie Miller had fled a loveless marriage in Australia, longing for adventure in the London of the Bright Young Things. At a gin-soaked party, she met Bill Lancaster, fresh from the Royal Air force, his head full of a scheme that would make him as famous as Charles Lindbergh, who has just crossed the Atlantic. Lancaster wanted to fly three times as far - from London to Melbourne - and in Jessie Miller he knew he had found the perfect co-pilot.
By the time they landed in Melbourne, the daring aviators were a global sensation - and, despite still being married to other people, deeply in love. Keeping their affair a secret, they toured the world until the Wall Street Crash changed everything; Bill and Jessie - like so many others - were broke. And it was then, holed up in a run-down mansion on the outskirts of Miami and desperate for cash, that Jessie agreed to write a memoir. When a dashing ghostwriter Haden Clark was despatched from New York, the toxic combination of the handsome interloper, bootleg booze and jealousy led to a shocking crime. The trial that followed put Jessie and Bill back on the front pages and drove him to a reckless act of abandon to win it all back.
The Lost Pilots is their extraordinary story, brought to vivid life by Corey Mead. Based on years of research and startling new evidence, and full of adventure, forbidden passion, crime, scandal and tragedy, it is a masterwork of narrative nonfiction that firmly restores one of aviation's leading female pioneers to her rightful place in history.
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ISBN-13: 9781427296184
ISBN-10: 1427296189
Dimensiuni: 132 x 150 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: MACMILLAN AUDIO
ISBN-10: 1427296189
Dimensiuni: 132 x 150 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: MACMILLAN AUDIO
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Corey Mead; read by Holter Graham
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