The Fun of It, Amelia Earhart
The Fun of It, Amelia Earhart
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The Fun of It
Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation

Author: Amelia Earhart

Narrator: Pamela Almand

Unabridged: 5 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/11/2021

Synopsis

Amelia Earhart’s autobiographical book The Fun of It: Random Records of My Own Flying and of Women in Aviation covers Earhart’s life through May 20–21, 1932, “when Miss Earhart, alone in a Lockheed Vega monoplane with a single Wasp engine, negotiated 2,026 miles through storm and fog from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to a cow pasture on the outskirts of Londonderry, Ireland. The flight set a transatlantic record of 14 hours, 56 minutes … and stirred such public adulation that she confided, ‘I’ll be glad when the zoo part is over.’” (ANB)

About Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) was an American aviator, author, and a champion of the advancement of women in aviation. She was the first woman to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean and the first woman to fly nonstop, coast-to-coast across the US. She attempted a flight around the world in 1937 but disappeared near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean.

About Pamela Almand

Pamela Almand is a SAG/AFTRA voice actor and audiobook narrator with multiple awards and nominations from the Audio Publishers Association’s Audie Awards, Society of Voice Arts and Sciences’ Voice Arts Awards, and AudioFile magazine’s Earphones Award. A former international 747 captain for Delta Airlines, Almand has herself flown single-engine aircraft (including a tiny two-seat Cessna 152!) across the Atlantic. So she has a very special passion for narrating Amelia Earhart’s story. She lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida, with her husband, Amos.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tara on November 13, 2009

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 a......more

Goodreads review by Kay on January 21, 2014

This book is just as charming as when I first read it in college over 20 years ago. It's the next best thing to sitting down with Amelia and having lunch.......more

Goodreads review by Cherie on August 06, 2015

Not the best written book ever BUT it was wonderful to read her words and her perspectives. What a wonderful life she created for herself and what a great empowering legacy to leave.......more

Goodreads review by Sarah Elizabeth on May 16, 2018

"What are women flyers like? What do they do when not flying? How do they look? These questions are still asked so often that I am going to describe a few of those I know. Of course, they are not different as individuals from any other group. There are slim ones and plump ones and quiet ones and thos......more

Goodreads review by Libros Prohibidos on May 10, 2017

Por el placer de hacerlo no es un libro feminista al uso. Al menos no fue escrito con esa intención. Pero lo es, y mucho además. No se alinea con ninguna ideología ni filosofía. La autora tampoco busca que el lector vea las cosas del mismo modo que ella. Solo defiende que una mujer pueda tener la mi......more

Quotes

“Miss Earhart knows a great deal about [aviation], especially as arts and business and her pages are full of experiences, the information, the little things and the big things the public likes to know about.” New York Times

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