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

Kessler, Lauren

 
9780375501241: The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes
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ISBN 10: 037550124X ISBN 13: 9780375501241
Editorial: Random House Inc, 2000

Sinopsis

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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<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

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Editorial
Random House Inc
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
037550124X
ISBN 13 
9780375501241
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Número de páginas
305
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9780812992526: The Happy Bottom Riding Club: The Life and Times of Pancho Barnes [Idioma Inglés]

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ISBN 10:  0812992520 ISBN 13:  9780812992526
Editorial: Random House Publishing Group, 2000
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