Women in Aviation Bibliography
Last Update: September 2002
Adult books in (aphabetical order)
100 Planes 100 Years: The First Century of Aviation. Winkowski,
Fred.
Smithmark Publishers, 1998.
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Aerial Vagabond. Owen, Bessie. Liveright Publishing Corporation,
1941.
Airwomen's Work. Taylor, Leonard. Pitman & Sons Press,
1943.
Alaska: Not for a Woman. Carey, Mary. Boston: Brandon, 1975.
All My Downs Have Been Ups. Masters, Nancy Robinson. Masair
Publications, 1992.
Amelia Earhart: A Biography. Rich, Doris. Smithsonian Institution
Press. 1990.
Amelia Earhart: Case Closed? Roessler, Walter; Gomez, Leo;
and Greene, Gail L. Markowski International Publishers, 1996.
Amelia Earhart: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer.
Goldstein, Donald M. and Dillon, Catherine V. Brassey's Inc.,
1997.
Amelia Earhart’s Daughters. Haynsworth, Leslie. William
Morrow, 1998.
Amelia Earhart takes off. Brown, Fern G. A. Whitman, 1985
Amelia Earhart’s shoes: is the mystery solved? King,
Thomas F. AltaMira Press, 2001.
Amelia My Courageous Sister. Morrissey, Muriel Earhart and
Osborne, Carol. Osborne Publisher. 1987.
America's First Woman Warrior: The Courage of Deborah Sampson.
Freeman, Lucy and Halbert, Alma. Paragon 1992.
American Women of the Space Age. Hoyt, Mary Finch. Anthenaeum,
1966.
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Barefoot in the Sky: an Autobiography. Scott, Sheila.
Macmillan, 1973.
Beyond the Clouds. Ricks, Chip. Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.1979.
Black wings: the American Black in aviation. Hardesty, Von.
Smithsonian Institution, 1984, 1983.
Born to Fly. Bird, Nancy. Angus and Robinson, 1961.
Breakthrough: Women In Aviation. Smith, Elizabeth Simpson.
Walker and Company, 1981.
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Clipped wings: the rise and fall of the Women Airforce Service
Pilots (WASPs) of
WorldWar II. Merryman, Molly. New York University Press, 1998.
Cows on the Runway. Eddleman, Jo. Sleeping Fox, 1975.
Crossed Currents: Navy Women from WWI to Tailhook. Ebbert,
Jean and Marie-Beth Hall. Brassey's
(Maxwell Macmillan Company), 1993.
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A Dance With Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II. Noggle,
Anne. Texas A & M University
Press, 1994.
Daughter of the Air: The Brief Soaring Life of Cornelia Fort.
Simbeck, Rob.Atlantic
Monthly Press, 2000.
Distance Flights. Berliner, Don. Lerner Publications Co., 1990.
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East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart. Butler,
Susan. Da Capo Press, 1999.
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Female Soldiers: Combatants or Non-combatants. Goldman,
Nancy, ed. Greewald Press, 1982.
Fire and Air: a life on the edge. Wagstaff, Patty. Chicago
Review Press, 1997.
First to Fly: Aviation's Pioneer Days. Harris, Sherwood. Simon
and Schuster, 1970
Flight Fever. Hamlen, Joseph R. NY: Doubleday, 1971.
Flying For the Fatherland. Lomax, Judy. Bantam Pocketbooks
1991
Flying is my Life. Reitsch, Hanna. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954.
From Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler's Bunker: The Fantastic Flights
of Hanna Reitsch. Piszkiewicz, Dennis. Greenwook Publishing Group,
Inc., 1997.
Front Row Center: Inside the Great American Airshow. Hildebrandt,
Erik. Cleared Hot Media, 2000
Forgotten Pilots: a Story of the Air Transport Auxiliary, 1939-1945.
Curtis, Lattice. Foulis, 1971.
The Fun of It. Earhart, Amelia. Harcourt Brace; 1932 (reprinted
Chicago Academy Publishers, 1993).
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Girls Can’t Be Pilots: AN Aerobiography. Ringenberg,
Margaret. Daedalus Press, 1998.
The Girls Were Up There Too: Australian Women in Aviation.
Mann, Shelia. Australian Government Publications Service, 1986.
Go-Around: The Story of Mary Gaffaney. Tracy, Jean Via. Kendall
Press, 1979
Golden Wings. King, Alison. Pearson, 1956.
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The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho
Barnes. Kessler, Laura.
Random House, 2000. ISBN 037550124X
Harriet Quimby: America's First Lady of the Air. Hall. Ed Y.
ed. Honoribus Press, 1993.
Her Mentor Was An Albatross: The Autobiography of Pioneer Pilot
Harriet Quimby. Holden,
Henry. Black Hawk Publishing, 1993.
Heroes Without Legacy: American Airwomen, 1912-1944. Jaros,
Dean.
University Press of Colorado, 1993.
Heroines of the Sky. Adams, Jean & others. Doubleday, Doran
& Co. 1942.
Heroines of the Sky: Women in Aviation. Lauwick, Herve. Frederick
Muller Ltd., 1960.
Hovering: The History of the Whirly-Girls: International Women
Helicopter Pilots. Holden, Henry.
Black Hawk Publishing, 1994.
How High She Flies: Dorothy Swain Lewis. Cooper, Anne. Aviatrix
Publishing, 1999.
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I Did It in a Skyhawk. Tenison, Geraldine.Four Sons Press,
1987.
I Live to Fly. Auriol, Jacqueline. Tower Publications, 1971
I Must Fly: Adventures of a Woman Pilot. Scott, Sheila. Hodder
and Stoughton. 1968.
I Taught Amelia to Fly. Southern, Neta Snook. Vantage Press,
Inc., 1974.
In Defense of a Nation: Servicewomen in World War II. Holm,
Jeanne M. Vandamere Press, 1998.
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Jackie Cochran: An Autobiography. Cochran, Jacqueline
and Brinley, Maryanne Bucknum.
Bantam Books, 1987.
Jacqueline Cochran: America's Fearless Aviator. McGuire, Nina
and Sammons, Sandra Tailored
Tours Publications, Inc., 1997.
Jacqueline Cochran: First Lady of Flight. Fisher, Marquita
O. Garrard Publishing Co. 1973.
Jean Batten: The Garbo of the Skies. Mackersey, Ian. Macdonald
& Co., Ltd, 1990.
Judith Resnick: Challenger Astronaut. Bernstein, Joanne. Lodestar/Dutton.
1990
Just Plane Crazy: a Biography of Bobbi Trout. Veca, Donna and
Mazzio, Skip. Santa Clara, CA: Osborne Publisher, 1987.
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Katherine Stinson: The Flying Schoolgirl. Wingarten,
Debra. Eakin Publications, 2000.
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Ladybirds: The Untold Story of Women Pilots in America.
Holden, Henry.
Black Hawk Publishing Co., 1991.
Ladybirds II: The Continuing Story of Women in Aviation. Holden,
Henry.
Black Hawk Publishing Co., 1993.
Ladybirds: Women in Aviation. Jablonski, Edward. Hawthorne
Books, 1968.
Last Flight. Earhart, Amelia. Putnam & Sons, 1937, (reprinted
Orion Books 1992).
Leaders in Aerospace: The Women. Obee, Fern and Zumwalt, Jule.
USAF Civil Air Patrol Pacific Liaison Region, 1979.
Letters From Amelia, 1898-1937. Backus, Jean L. ed. Beacon
Press, 1992.
Listen! The Wind. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Harcourt Brace &
World. 1938.
Little Stinker. Skelton, Betty. Cross Press, 1977.
Lost Star: The Search for Amelia Earhart. Brink, Randall. W.W.
Norton, 1994
Love at First Flight. Strohfus, Elizabeth as told to Cheryl
J. Young. North Star Press of St. Cloud, 1994.
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Mama Bird: Biography of Evelyn Bryan Johnson, a Flight
Instructor. Prince, George.Morristown Tennessee Airport, 1993.
My God! It's a Woman. Bird, Nancy. Angus and Robinson, 1990.
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Night Witches The Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat.
Myles, Bruce. Presidio, 1981.
North to the Orient. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Harcourt Brace
& World. 1935
No more words: a journal of my mother, Anne Morrow Lindberg.
Lindbergh, Reeve.
Simon & Schuster, 2001.
No Place for A Lady. Render, Shirley. Portage and Main Press,
1993.
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On Extended Wings. Ackerman, Dane. Charles Scribner's
& Sons. 1987.
On Final Approach: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World
War II. Granger, Byrd Howell. Falconer Publishing Co. 1991.
On the Wing: Jessie Woods and the Flying Aces Air Circus.
Cooper, Ann. Black Hawk Publishing Co., 1993.
On Wings To War: Teresa James, Aviator. Churchill, Jan. Sunflower
University Press, 1992.
Oshkosh Memories: Reflections on the World’s Greatest
Fly-in. Rutan, Jill. IUniverse.com, 2000.
Our Wartime Days: The WAAF in World War II. Escott, Beryl E. Alan
Sutton Publishing Limited, 1995.
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Pan Am's First Lady: The Diary of Betty Stettinius Trippe.
Davies, R.E. 1996.
Pancho: The Biography of Florence Lowe Barnes. Schultz, Barbara
Hunter. Little Buttes, 1996.
Pioneer Aviator: The Remarkable Life of Lores Bonney.Gwynn-Jones,
Terry. University of Queensland Press 1988.
Pioneer Lady of Flight: Hazel Jane Raines: A Biography in Letters.
Hawkins, Regina T. Mercer University Press, 1996.
Powder Puff Derby of 1929. Jessen, Jean Nora. Source Books,
2002.
Propeller Annie: The Story of Helen Richey. Kerfoot, Glenn.
The Kentucky Aviation History Roundtable. 1988.
Proud to Be: My Life, The Airforce, The Controversy. Flinn,
Kelly. Random House, Inc., 1997.
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Queen Bess, Daredevil Aviator: The Biography of Bessie Coleman.
Rich, Doris. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.
R-
Rising Above It: The Autobiography of Edna Gardner Whyte. Whyte,
Edna Gardner with Cooper, Ann. Orion Books, 1991.
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Second to None: the story of Lloyd & Gladys O’Donnell
and the 1929 Women’s Air Derby
Doyle, Lorraine O’Donnell.
Sex Objects in the Sky. Kane, Paula. Follett Publishing Co.,
1974
She’s Just Another Navy Pilot: An Aviator’s Sea
Journal. Hirschman, Laura and Hirschman, Dave. Naval Institute
Press, 2000.
Sisters in the Sky, Vol. 1: The WAFS. Scharr, Adela Riek. Partice
Press, 1986.
Sisters in the Sky, Vol. 2: The WASP. Scharr, Adela Riek. Partice
Press, 1988
Sisters of the Wind: Voices of Early Women Aviators. Bell,
Elizabeth S. Trilogy Books, 1994
Skystars History of Women in Aviation. Hodgman, Ann and Djabbaroff,
Rudy. Antheneum, 1981.
Sky's the Limit. Boase, Wendy. Macmillan. 1979
Slacks and Callouses. Bowman, Constance. Longmans, Green &
Co. 1944
Soaring Above Setbacks: The Autobiography of Janet Harmon Bragg
(Smithsonian History of Aviation Series). Bragg, Janet Harmon
and Kriz, Marjorie M. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996.
Soaring Wings. Putnam, George Palmer. Harcourt, 1939.
Spreading My Wings: Wartime ATA Flying Adventures by One of
Britain's Top Women Pilots. Walker, Diana B. MBI Publishing Company,
1994.
The Stars at Noon. Cochran, Jacqueline. Little Brown, and Company,
1954.
Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism.
Ware, Susan. W.W.Norton & Co., Inc., 1993.
Straight On Till Morning: A Biography of Beryl Markham. Lovell,
Mary S. St. Martin's Press, 1987.
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Takeoff: The Story of America's First Woman Pilot for
a Major Airline. Tiburzi, Bonnie. Crown Publishers, 1984.
Talespins: A Story of Early Aviation Days. Culver, Edith Dodd.
Sunstone Press, 1986.
They Also Served: American Women in World War II. Gruhzit-Hoyt,
Olga. Carol Publishing Group, 1995.
They Flew the Bendix Race. Dwiggins, Don. Lippincott, 1965.
Those Wonderful Women and Their Flying Machines: The Unknown
Heroines of World War II. Keil, Sally Van Wagenen. Four Directions
Press, 1993.
Three-eight Charlie. Mock, Jerrie, Lippincott. 1970.
To Fill the Sky With Pilots: The Civilian Pilot Training Program,
1939-46. Pisano, Dominick. University of Illinois Press, 1993.
To Love the Sky. Beatty, Mary Alice. Albright & Co., 1986
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United States Women in Aviation 1919-1929. Pazmany, Kathleen
Brooks. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
United States Women in Aviation, 1940-1985. Douglas, Deborah
G. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
United States Women in Aviation through World War I. Oaks,
Claudia. Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space. 1978.
United States Women in Aviation 1930-1939. Oaks, Claudia. Smithsonian
Studies in Air and Space #6 Washington, D.C. 1985.
Up In the Air. Worthylake, Mary. Privately Printed, 1979.
V
Voyager. Yeager, Jeana and Rutan, Dick. Alfred Knoff, 1987.
W
A WASP among Eagles : a woman military test pilot in World
War II. Carl, Ann.
Smithsonian Institution Press, c1999.
WASPS: Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II. Williams,
Vera. Motorbooks Internationa, 1994
We Can Fly. Rogers, Mary Beth, Sherry A. Smith, and Janelle
D. Scott. Ellen C. Temple Publisher, 1983.
We Were WASPs. Wood, Winifred, and Swain, Dorothy. Glade House,
1945 (republished 1993).
West With the Night. Markham, Beryl. Northpoint Press, 1983
(originally published 1942).
Wind in the Wires: A Golden Era of Flight 1909-1939. Vines,
Mike. Motorbooks International, 1995.
Winged Legend: The Life of Amelia Earhart. Burke, John. Berkley
Publishing Co. 1974
Wings for Life. Nichols, Ruth. Lippincott. 1957.
Wings on My Suitcase. Tickell, Jerrard, ed. Wingate, 1958.
Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart. Brennan,
T.C. Buddy. Renaissance House. 1988.
Women Airforce Service Pilot. Gott, Kay and Lee, Hazel Ah Ying
Veteran's Quality Printing, 1996.
Women Aloft. Moolman, Valerie. Time Life Books 1982.
Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots. Russo,
Carolyn and Cochrane, Dorothy. Little, Brown, & Co., 1997.
Women in Aeronautics. May, Charles Paul. Thomas Nelson &
Sons, Inc., 1962.
Women in Air Force Blue: The Story of Women in the Royal Air
Force from 1918 to the Present Day. Escott, Beryl E. Stephens,
1989.
Women in Aviation. Peckham, Betty. Thomas Nelson & Sons,
Inc., 1945
Women In Aviation and Space. Flowers, Dr. Sandra H. Alabama
Aviation & Technical College, Undated.
Women in Flight Research at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
from 1946 to 1995. Powers, Sheryll Goecke. NASA History Office,
1997.
Women in Pursuit: Flying Fighters for the Air Transport Command
Ferrying Division During World War II. Gott, Kay. 1993
Women in Space: Reaching the Last Frontier. - Briggs, Carole
S. Learner Publications Co., 1988.
Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Holm, Jeanne
M. Presidio Press, 1982.
Women of Courage: The Women Airforce Service Pilots of World
War II: Companion Guide. Magid, Ken. K.M. Productions, 1993.
Women of the Air. Lomax, Judy. Dodd; Mead, & Company; 1987.
Women Pilots of World War II. Cole, Jean Hascall. University
of Utah Press, 1992.
Women Who Dared: American Female Test Pilots, Flight Test Engineers,
and Astronauts. Pateman, Yvonne C. Norstar, 1996.
Women With Wings. Planck, Charles E. Harper Brothers. 1942.
Women With Wings: Female Flyers in Fact and Fiction. Cadogan,
Mary. Sunflower University Press, 1993.
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Zero Three Bravo. Gosnell, Marianna. Knoff. 1993.
JUVENILE BOOKS
Airport. Malam, John. Peter Bedrick Books, 1999.
Amelia and Eleanor go for a ride: based on a true story. Ryan,
Pam Munoz.
Scholastic Press, 1999.
Amelia Earhart: An Adventure in the Sky. Sabin, Francene. Troll
Associates, 1983.
Amelia Earhart: Aviation Pioneer. Chadwick, Roxanne. Learner
Publications, 1987.
Amelia Earhart: Pioneer in the Sky. Parlin, John. Chelsea House
Publishers, 1992.
Amelia Earhart: The Pioneering Pilot. Langley, A. Oxford University
Press, 1997.
Amelia Earhart: Young Air Pioneer (Young Patriot Series). Howe,
Jane Moore and Morrison, Cathy (illustrator). Patria Press, 2000.
Amelia Earhart Flies Around the World. Davies, Kath. Silver
Burdett Press, 1994.
Angela's Airplane. Munsch, Robert. Annick Press, 1988.
Ann Morrow Lindbergh: Pilot & Poet. Chadwick, Roxanne.
Learner Publications, 1991.
At the Controls: Women in Aviation. Briggs, Carole S. Lerner
Publications Co., 1991.
Bessie Coleman: first black woman pilot. Plantz, Connie. Enslow
Publishers, 2001.
Brave Bessie: Flying Free. Fisher, L. Hendrick-Long Publishing,
1995.
Brave Harriet : the first woman to fly the English Channel.
Moss, Marissa; illustrated by
C.F. Payne. Silver Whistle/Harcourt, 2001.
Coming Out Right: The Story of Jacqueline Cochran, the First
Woman to Break the Sound Barrier. Smith, Elizabeth Simpson. Walker
and Company, 1993.
DK big book of airplanes. Bingham, Caroline. Dorling Kindersley
Pub., 2001
First Lady of the Air: The Harriet Quimby Story. Brown, Sterling.
Tudor, 1997.
First Women of the Skies. Crowley, Kitty A. Contemporary Perspectives,
Inc., 1978.
Fly, Bessie, fly. Joseph, Lynn; illustrated by Yvonne Buchanan.
Simon & Schuster Books
for Young Readers, 1998.
Fly high! : The story of Bessie Coleman. Borden, Louise. Margaret
K. McElderry, 2001.
Flying Against the Wind: A Story about Beryl Markham. Bowen,
A. Carolrhoda Books, 1997.
I want to be a pilot. Firefly, 1999.
If We Had Wings. Buck, Rinker. Crown Publishers, 2001
If you were a—pilot. Schomp, Virginia. Benchmark Books,
2000.
In Celebration of Bessie Coleman. Dawkins, Wayne. Gannett News
Service, 1995.
Jacqueline Cochran: America's Fearless Aviator. McGuire, Nina
and Sammons, Sandra W. Tailored Tours Publications, Inc., 1997.
Let's fly from A to Z. Magee, Doug. Cobblehill Books, c1992.
Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of "Brave Bessie"
Coleman. Lindbergh, Reeve;
illustrated by Pamela Paparone. Candlewick Press, 1996.
A picture book of Amelia Earhart. Adler, David; illustrated
by Jeff Fisher. Holiday House, 1998.
Ruth Law thrills a nation. Brown, Don. Ticknor & Fields,
1993
Sally Ride: An American First. Beherns, June. Childrens Press,
1984.
Sky Pioneer: A Photobiography of Amelia Earhart. Szabo, Corrine
and Finch, Linda.
National Geographic Society, 1997.
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Book of Flight.
Rinard, Judith e. Firefly Books, 2201. .
Tomboy of the air: daredevil pilot Blanche Stuart Scott. Cummins,
Julie.
Harper Collins Publishers, 2001
Up in the Air: The Story of Bessie Coleman. Hart, Philip S.,
and O’Connor, Barbara
Lerner Publishing Group, 1996.
What's It Like To Be An Astronaut. Poskanzer, Susan Cornell.
Troll Associates, 1990.
Women Astronauts: Aboard the Shuttle. Fox, Mary Virginia. J.
Mesner, 1984.
Women with wings. McLean, Jacqueline. Oliver Press, 2001.
Young Amelia Earhart: A Dream to Fly. Alcott, Susan. Troll
Associates, 1992.
Fiction
- Baker, Trudy and Rachel Jones. Coffee Tea or Me. NY: Bantam
Books, 1967.
- Byars, Betsy Cromer. Coast to Coast. New York: Delacorte, 1992.
- Dailey, Janet. Silver Wings - Santiago Blue. NY: Poseidon Press.
1984 (Fiction about the WASPs).
- De Pauw, Linda Grant. Baptism of Fire. Pasadena, VA: The Minerva
Center, 1994 (Fiction futuristic).
- Gann, Earnest K. Gentleman of Adventure. NY: Signet, 1983.
- Keene, Carolyn. The Sky Phantom. New York: Grosset & Dunlap,
1976.
- Milton, Hilary H. Blind Flight. New York: Watts, 1980.
- Rust, Megan Mallory. Dead Stick. NY: Berkley Prime Crime, 1998.
- Serling, Robert. Stewardess. NY: Signet, 1982.
- Serling, Robert. She'll Never Get Off the Ground. NY Doubleday,
1971
- Spiro, Corylee & Harwell, Elizabeth. Cabin Pressure. NY: St
Martin's Press, 1989.
Other
- Masson, Angela. Elements of Organizational Discrimination: The
Air Force Response to Women As Military Pilots Ph.D. Dissertation
University of Southern California, January, 1976.
- Rodriguez, Charles L. Descriptive Study of Females Preparing
for Nontraditional Career in Aviation. M.S. Thesis, Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale. 1986.
- Stewart-Smith, Natalie. Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)
of World War II: Perspectives on the Work of America's First Women
Military Aviators. M.A. Thesis Washington State University. Ann
Arbor. 1981.
Videos
- Brennan, T.C. Buddy. Witness to the Execution: The Odyssey of
Amelia Earhart. Renaissance House. 1988.
- Women of Courage Colorado. K.M. Productions 1992
- World Without Walls - Beryl Markham's African Adventure.
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