In the seventy years since the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during a flight over the Central Pacific, their fate has remained one of history’s most debated mysteries. Dozens of books have offered a variety of solutions to the puzzle, but they all draw on the same handful of documents and conflicting eyewitness accounts. Now a wealth of new information uncovered by TIGHAR allows this book to offer the first fully documented history of what happened. Scrupulously accurate and thrilling to read, it tells the story from the letters, logs, and telegrams that recorded events as they unfolded. Many long-accepted facts are revealed as myths.

Author Ric Gillespie, TIGHAR’s executive director, draws on the work of his organization’s historians, archaeologists, and scientists, who compiled and analyzed more than five thousand documents relating to the Earhart case. Their research led to the hypothesis that Earhart and Noonan died as castaways on a remote Pacific atoll. But this book is not a polemic that argues for a particular theory. Rather, it presents all of the authenticated historical dots and leaves it to the reader to make the connections. In addition to details about the Earhart’s career and final flight, the book examines her relationship with the U.S. government and the massive search undertaken by the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy. For serious students of Earhart’s disappearance, an accompanying DVD reproduces the documents, reports, and technical studies cited in the text, allowing instant review and verification of the sources. To order your copy from the Naval Institute Press, call 1-800-233-8764; or click HERE to order a copy from TIGHAR.

You, the members of TIGHAR, have provided the funding that has made the research and the expeditions possible. Now we call upon you to help us bring the results of that work to the public at large. Just as our eight Earhart Project expeditions (so far, and more to come) have been your expeditions, so we are asking you to make Finding Amelia your book by helping us raise the money needed to publicize and promote the book. Remember, TIGHAR owns the copyright and will receive the royalties on each sale.

For each $100 you contribute to become a member of the TIGHAR Literary Guild you will receive a copy of the finished book and accompanying DVD. Ric will autograph each book and inscribe it as you request. Contributions are tax deductible in the United States to the full extent of the law.

Please click HERE to make your contribution and specify how you would like your book(s) inscribed. Thank you.