Chapter I: Front Matter

_Daughter of the Sky_

_Courage_[A]

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not
Knows no release from little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.

How can life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare
The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the resistless day,
And count it fair.

--AMELIA EARHART

[A] Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.

_Daughter of the Sky_

THE STORY OF AMELIA EARHART

by PAUL L. BRIAND, JR.

_DUELL, SLOAN and PEARCE_
New York

COPYRIGHT © 1960 BY PAUL L. BRIAND, JR.

All rights reserved. No part of this book in excess
of five hundred words may be reproduced in any form
without permission in writing from the publisher.

_First edition_

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 60-5457

MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

VAN REES PRESS · NEW YORK

The author wishes to thank Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc., for permission to quote from the following books: _The Fun of It_, copyright, 1932, by Amelia Earhart; _Last Flight_, by Amelia Earhart, copyright, 1937, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.; _Soaring Wings_, copyright, 1939, by George Palmer Putnam; _Wide Margins_, by George Palmer Putnam, copyright, 1942, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc.

For Margaret, my wife,
who allowed another woman--
Amelia Earhart--into my life.

_Contents_

_Author’s Note_ xi

_Introduction_ xiii

PART ONE _THE FRIENDSHIP FLIGHT_

1. _Boston Social Worker_ 3

2. _Girlhood in Kansas_ 12

3. _Halifax and Trepassey_ 15

4. _Atchison Tomboy_ 20

5. _Over the Atlantic_ 25

6. _Premed at Columbia_ 27

7. _Land!_ 30

8. _A Sack of Potatoes_ 32

9. _In the Public Eye_ 35