Description A beautiful and inspiring book.
fascinatingly told .
-- Donna Shirley, former head of the U.
Mars program, NASA The exhilarating story of the first women who boldly conquered the skies in the first female cross-country air race The year is 1929, and on the eve of America's Great Depression, nineteen gutsy and passionate pilots soared above the glass ceiling in the very first female cross-country air race.
Armed with.