20 hrs., 40 min.

by Amelia Earhart

With courage to behold resistless day,

And count it fair.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Foreword		[9]
Introduction		[11]
CHAPTER
I.—	Toronto Days	[29]
II.—	Early Aviation	[43]
III.—	My Own Plane	[59]
IV.—	I Shift My Base to Boston	[82]
V.—	Preparations	[95]
VI.—	Off for Newfoundland	[117]
VII.—	At Trepassey	[147]
VIII.—	Across	[170]
IX.—	Journey’s End	[198]
X.—	Aviation Invites	[212]
XI.—	Women in Aviation	[237]
XII.—	Problems and Progress	[252]
XIII.—	Retrospect	[279]
	Wilmer Stultz—Pilot	[311]
	Louis Edward Gordon—Flight Mechanic	[313]

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
On the “President Roosevelt”	[Frontispiece]
London News Agency Photo.
Amelia Earhart	[35]
Underwood and Underwood.
Wilmer Stultz	[36]
International Newsreel.
Slim Gordon	[41]
Paramount News Photo.
Mrs. Guest Returning to New York is Met by Commander Byrd from Whom She Purchased the “Friendship”	[42]
International Newsreel.
My First Training Ship, 1920	[51]
A. E., 1928	[52]
Southampton—Mrs. Guest, Gordon, A. E., Stultz, Mrs. Foster Welch	[57]
Keystone Views.
After My First Solo, 1921	[58]
My Cabbage Patch Landing, California, 1921	[63]
“I was Fond of Automobiles, Horseback Riding, and Almost Anything Else that is Active and Carried on in the Open”	[64]
“Ladies’ Day”	[73]
Sykes in the New York Evening Post.
Brynjulf Strandenaes Paints a Portrait	[74]
Flyers All—Eielson, Wilkins, Byrd, Chamberlin, Balchen, Stultz, Earhart, Gordon	[83]
P. & A. Photos.
Boston, June 9	[84]
At Boston with Her Mother and Major Woolley, whose Flying Coat Miss Earhart Wore Across the Atlantic	[93]
Wide World Photos.
“The Yellow Peril” and Her Driver Back in Boston, before Denison House	[94]
International Photos.
Welcomed by the Southampton Crowd	[103]
Wide World Photos.
At Medford, Massachusetts	[104]
Ready to Go	[113]
A Picture of the “Friendship” Over Boston	[114]
Autographed before the flight started.
Percy Crosby’s Skippy Has His Own Ideas about Flying the Atlantic	[123]
The “America” as Photographed through the Open Hatch in the Bottom of the “Friendship’s” Fuselage	[124]
On the Step	[133]
Flying to Boston—Gordon, A. E., Stultz, Mrs. Gordon, Mrs. Stultz, Mrs. Putnam	[134]
Stultz in the Cockpit of the “Friendship” Looking Aft between the Gasoline Tanks	[143]
P. & A. Photos.
Two Musketeers and—What is a Feminine Musketeer?	[144]
“X Marks the Spot”	[153]
Our Home in Trepassey.
Main Street, Trepassey	[154]
Slim on the Job	[163]
International Photos.
The Inevitable Winter Woodpile	[164]
The “Friendship” Off Trepassey	[173]
B-a-a-a! A Front Lawn at Trepassey	[174]
Lady Lindy; Lady Luck	[183]
Rollin Kirby in The New York World.
For Nineteen Hours Only a Sea of Clouds	[184]
Wide World Photos.
The “Friendship” “Bombing” the “America”	[193]
U. S. Shipping Board.
The Last Page in the Log Book	[194]
We Didn’t Doubt that Tying to the Buoy was Against Official Etiquette	[203]
“We Opened the Door of the Fuselage and Looked Out upon what we Could See of the British Isles”	[204]
International Newsreel.
Landing at Burry Port—the Ubiquitous Autograph Seeker	[213]
Wide World Photos.
The First Step in England. Hubert Scott Payne Helps Me Ashore	[214]
International Photos.
In London (Miss Earhart)	[223]
Topical Press Agency.
“A Big Smile, Please!”	[224]
Paramount News Photo.
The Bobby Said: “If My Wife Sees This—!”	[233]
Keystone Views.
Off for Ascot—Mrs. Guest and Her Sons Winston and Raymond	[234]
Between Us Girls	[243]
Weed in New York Evening World.
First Look at Burry Port	[244]
P. & A. Photos.
2500 Feet Up. A. E. and Mrs. Putnam Sign the Guest Book of Jas. H. Rand’s Trimotored Ford the “Rem-Rand”	[253]
A. E., Thea Rasche, Ruth Nichols at the Westchester-Biltmore	[254]
Goodbye	[263]
At Toynbee Hall, London	[264]
Wide World Photos.
Arriving in Boston by Plane, July 9	[273]
P. & A. Photos.
Lady Heath and Her Historic Avro Avian	[274]
Rear Platform Stuff	[283]
Wide World Photos.
With a Model of the “Friendship” Presented by A Boston Schoolboy	[284]
The Camera, too, Handed Us Brickbats	[293]
These are culled from our less (oh, far!) flattering photographic souvenirs.
Yesterday’s Hero, and Today’s	[294]
John T. McCutcheon in The Chicago Tribune.
From Pittsburgh to Altoona	[297]
Before the Flight in Boston—A. E. and G. P. P.	[298]
Two Characteristic Pages from the Trans-Atlantic Log Book	[305–6–7]
The difficulty of writing in the dark is exemplified by the penmanship of the second page.
Boston, 1928	[308]

20 HRS. 40 MIN.

20 HRS. 40 MIN.

CHAPTER I
TORONTO DAYS

THERE are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. Because I selected a father who was a railroad man it has been my fortune to roll.