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The greatest man in the world

Jack Smurch, armed with a salami and a gallon of gin, becomes the first man to fly solo and non-stop around the world, but officials find they have their work cut out for them when it becomes clear that Smurch, an arrogant, illiterate lout, is no one's idea of an American hero.

The Jerrie Mock story

the first woman to fly solo around the world
A biography of Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world in the 1960s.

Fly, girl, fly!

Shaesta Waiz soars around the world
2020
"The story of how Shaesta Waiz became the youngest woman in history, and the first woman from Afghanistan, to fly around the world in a single-engine aircraft"--Provided by publisher.

First flight around the world

the adventures of the American fliers who won the race
2015
Documents the efforts of four American planes to be the first to circumnavigate the globe by flight in 1924.

The Jerrie Mock story

the first woman to fly solo around the world
"The story of Jerrie Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world"--.

The Jerrie Mock story

the first woman to fly solo around the world
2016
A biography of Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world in the 1960s.

A world to conquer

the epic story of the first around-the-world flight
1981

The first solo flight around the world

the story of Wiley Post and his airplane, the Winnie Mae
1993
Text and photographs cover the life of American pilot Wiley Post and his record-setting solo flight around the world in 1933.

Amelia Earhart

the mystery solved
1999
Attempts to reconstruct the events that led up to and followed the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart

the mystery solved
2001
Attempts to reconstruct the events that led up to and followed the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.

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