The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes - Rilegato

Kessler, Lauren

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ISBN 10: 037550124X ISBN 13: 9780375501241

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Relates the story of pioneer female flying ace Pancho Barnes, chronicling her adventures as an aviator and a hard-drinking friend and host to Hollywood's elite.

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Informazioni sull?autore

<b>Lauren Kessler</b> is the author of nine books, among them <i>Stubborn Twig</i>, which received the Frances Fuller Victor Award for the year's best work of literary nonfiction. She directs the grad-uate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she lives with her husband and three children.

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s was a force of nature, a woman who lived a big, messy, colorful, unconventional life. She ran through three fortunes, four husbands, and countless lovers. She outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican Army, and out- maneuvered the U.S. government. In <b>The Happy Bottom Riding Club</b>, award-winning author Lauren Kessler tells the story of a high-spirited, headstrong woman who was proud of her successes, unabashed by her failures, and the architect of her own legend.<br> <br>Florence "Pancho" Barnes was a California heiress who inherited a love of flying from her grandfather, a pioneer balloonist in the Civil War. Faced with a future of domesticity and upper-crust pretensions, she ran away from her responsibilities as wife and mother to create her own life. She cruised South America. She trekked through Mexico astride a burro. She hitchhiked halfway across the United States. Then, in the late 1920s, s

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 037550124X
• ISBN 13: 9780375501241
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 305
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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