Spanning the Defiant Sea

The sudden surge in feminine transatlantic fever in the summer of 1927 had been percolating in women's minds for years. Above the clouds, men had reigned nearly supreme for decades. If a woman should be the first to successfully make a nonstop flight across the Atlantic, she would achieve more lasting fame with that single exploit than she had ever earned in all the years of her life. As sure as Gertrude Ederle earned worldwide fame as the first woman to swim the English Channel, so would everlasting glory await the first of her sex to fly the Atlantic. The brief legacy of these women who took to the air and flew with transatlantic fever was a subconscious gift-an inspiration to future sisters-sisters they would never know. But who would it be? Who would succeed where so many others will fail? Includes bibliographical references and index.