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West Over The Waves: The Final Flight of Elsie Mackay

West Over The Waves: The Final Flight of Elsie Mackay

Baldwin, Jayne

Paperback

Adventurers & ExplorersBiographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN10: 1912014696
ISBN13: 9781912014699
Publisher: Jayne Baldwin
Published: Feb 13 2017
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Glamorous heiress Elsie Mackay could have lived her life in the social whirl of high society, partying with princes and dancing with dukes. Instead this wilful young woman was determined to pursue her dreams - eloping with a dashing soldier, starring on the silver screen, and designing the luxurious interiors of ocean liners. But her greatest passion was for aviation, still in its infancy in the 1920s, and her burning ambition was to become the first woman to not only fly the Atlantic but to cross those unforgiving waves by the most challenging route - east to west - against the prevailing winds. Not only were the odds stacked against her but she knew her father, the shipping tycoon Lord Inchcape, would do everything in his considerable power to stop her.

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