Amelia Earhart’s Shoes

The updated version of Amelia Earhart’s Shoes gets a favorable review from K. Kris Hirst. He says:

The 2004 updated edition of the original 2001 book by Thomas F. King, Randall S. Jacobson, Karen Ramey Burns, and Kenton Spading is a terrific addition to ongoing research on Earhart and [navigator Fred] Noonan’s mysterious disappearance. Research by members of TIGHAR (The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery) sifts through much of the available evidence, including six seasons of fieldwork on Nikumaroro and McKean Islands in the Phoenix Island Group, Republic of Kiribati, to suggest — but not prove — that Earhart and Noonan survived their plane crash only to die castaways on an uninhabited island.
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The epilogue to the 2004 updated edition of Amelia Earhart’s Shoes describes the results of the 2001–2002 investigations on Nikumaroro Island, including excavations on Niku, study of post-loss radio communications (some of which were from Earhart and Noonan), and the input of new Earhart mystery devotees, people who stumbled on the TIGHAR website, became enchanted and could not let go. I can well understand their obsession.

The mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan is a maddening one, because, like most archaeological questions, the truth is just outside our reach, available only by time travel but hinted, if we’re lucky, by the clink of a trowel.

If you’re an archaeologist or a fan of archaeology, if you love a good mystery, if you want to know what historic archaeological research is really like, or if you’re a secret fan of Amelia Earhart, get your hands on this book. You will surely not be disappointed.