Leaving Earth
by Helen Humphreys | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0312255004 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0312255004 Global Overview for this book
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From the back cover:"On August 1, 1933, two young women, the famous aviatrix Grace O'Gorman and the inexperienced Willa Briggs, take off in a tiny moth biplane to break the world flight endurance record. Their plan: to circle above the city of Toronto for twenty-five days. With each passing day, the women's ties to humanity fall away and the intensity of their connection becomes as gripping as the perils that besiege them: fatigue, weather, mechanical breakdown, and the the lethal efforts of a saboteur."
From the back cover:"On August 1, 1933, two young women, the famous aviatrix Grace O'Gorman and the inexperienced Willa Briggs, take off in a tiny moth biplane to break the world flight endurance record. Their plan: to circle above the city of Toronto for twenty-five days. With each passing day, the women's ties to humanity fall away and the intensity of their connection becomes as gripping as the perils that besiege them: fatigue, weather, mechanical breakdown, and the the lethal efforts of a saboteur."
