Against Wind and Tide
Letters and Journals, 1947-1986
Why, as an eager and talented writer, has Anne Morrow Lindbergh published so relatively little in forty years of marriage? asked reviewer John Barkham in 1970. After a promising start with those first books on flying, she tapered off into long silences broken by an infrequent volume of verse or prose. Many years later, Lindbergh replied with a quote from Harriet Beecher Stowe, who claimed that writing, for a wife and mother, is rowing against wind and tide. In this sixth and final collection of Lindbergh's diaries and letters, taking us from 1947 to 1986, we mark her progress as she navigated a remarkable life and a remarkable century with en…
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- ISBN: 978-0-307-90714-1
- EAN: 9780307907141
- Produktnummer: 15728211
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'481 KB
- Abbildungen: 8 PAGES B&W ILLUSRATIONS
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She married Charles Lindbergh in 1929 and became a noted aviator in her own right, eventually publishing several books on the subject and receiving several aviation awards. Gift from the Sea, published in 1955, earned her international acclaim. She was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame, the National Women's Hall of Fame, and the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey. War Within and Without, the penultimate installment of her published diaries, received the Christopher Award in 1980. Mrs. Lindbergh died in 2001 at the age of ninety-four.
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