Julia Cooke Come Fly the World (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Come Fly the WorldCondition: NewDescription: ** Chosen as a May 2021 pick for The Fearless Book Club by Nobel Peace Prize-Winner, Malala Yousafzai **Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.Glamour, danger, liberation: in the Jet Age, Pan Am offered young women the world. Come Fly the World tells the story of the stewardesses who served on the iconic Pan American Airways between 1966 and 1975 - and of the unseen diplomatic role they played on the world stage.Alongside the glamour was real danger, as they flew soldiers to and from Vietnam and staffed Operation Babylift - the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon. Cooke's storytelling weaves together the true stories of women like Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few African American stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of a jet-set life.In the process, Cooke shows how the sexualized coffee-tea-or-me stereotype was at odds with the importance of what they did, and with the freedom, power and sisterhood they achieved.Author: Julia CookeCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBEAN: 9781785786884Format: HardbackGenre: Travel & TransportISBN: 9781785786884ISBN-10: 1785786881Item Height: 222mmItem Length: 144mmItem Weight: 420gItem Width: 29mmLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Women of Pan Am at War and PeacePublisher: Icon BooksTopic: Biography, HistoryRelease Date: 04/08/2021Release Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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