Daughter of the Sky
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CourageA
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
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.
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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.