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Chargement... Amelia Earhart's Shoes: Is the Mystery Solved?par Thomas F. King
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  VivienneR | Dec 10, 2014 | 
This book posits that due to bad weather, Earhart and Noonan missed their refueling stop on Howland Island in the mid-Pacific and landed on Nikumaroro, a small island south of their target. While most Earhart quests are based on imaginative, usually untested hypotheses, this volume is scrupulous in not making any unevidenced assertions. Working from a wide range of fields its authors are an archeological consultant, a geophysicist, a forensic anthropologist and an army engineer this book claims that human bones and a shoe found on Nikumaroro indicate that Earhart possibly landed and died there. Unlike other Earhart detectives, the authors repeatedly emphasize that their conclusions are tentative and conjectural. While their judgments are tantalizing and plausible, the fun of the book is being in on the excitement of the discoveries and the scientific testing of the hypothesis. Prix et récompenses
"Can modern science tell us what happened to Amelia Earhart? A team of renowned scientists - members of TIGHAR's (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) Amelia Earhart Project - has spent fifteen years searching for Amelia using everything from archival research and archaeological survey to side-scan sonar and the analysis of radio wave propagation. In this spellbinding book, these scholars offer tantalizing evidence that the First Lady of the Air and her copilot, Fred Noonan, landed on a remote Pacific island but perished before they could be rescued."--Jacket. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Minor irritations: the ubiquitous acronym TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) scattered on every page; numerous so-called TIGHAR songs, "sung to the tune of ..."; and the number of errors, which in my library copy were compounded by a previous reader's "corrections". (