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The Aviatrix: The Daredevil Life of Bessie Coleman, the First Black Woman to Fly

The Aviatrix: The Daredevil Life of Bessie Coleman, the First Black Woman to Fly

Andrews, Lena S.

Hardcover

Aviation & NauticalBiographies GeneralGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $32.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date May 4, 2027

ISBN10: 0063426617
ISBN13: 9780063426610
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: May 4 2027
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.42
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A rich and revelatory biography of the cinematic life of death-defying aviation pioneer Bessie Coleman, the first Black woman to hold a pilot's license, by the author of the national bestseller Valiant Women.

For a brief and brilliant moment in the early 1920s, Bessie Coleman was one of the most famous people in America. Her performances were tracked meticulously by Black newspapers from Chicago to Los Angeles, written up in the New York Times, and celebrated in lecture halls across the country. Bessie's aerial acrobatics--figure eights, stalls, dives, tailspins, and loop-the-loops--were as dazzling as they were dangerous, and they drew thousands of spectators to open fields on the outskirts of cities and small towns, where Bessie appeared suddenly (and loudly) in the cockpit of her plane, as if conjured from their imaginations.

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