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Leaving Earth: a novel

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Author:
Humphreys, Helen, 1961-
Publisher:
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date:
1998
Edition:
1st American ed
Language:
English
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Two women aviators in 1933 set out to break a flight endurance record by circling over Toronto for 25 days, refuelling in mid-air. The novel describes the way the women live in the open cockpit and the bond that forms as they brave fatigue, weather and mechanical trouble. A first novel.
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Amitié féminine
Amitié féminine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Endurance flights
Endurance flights -- Fiction
Female friendship
Female friendship -- Fiction
Femmes
Femmes -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Femmes pilotes d'aéronef
Femmes pilotes d'aéronef -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Fiction
Filles juives
Filles juives -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Historical fiction
Jewish girls
Jewish girls -- Fiction
Ontario -- Toronto
Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction
Vols d'endurance
Vols d'endurance -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Women
Women -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Fiction
Women air pilots
Women air pilots -- Fiction
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Amitié féminine -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
Endurance flights
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Female friendship
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Femmes pilotes d'aéronef -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
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Historical fiction
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Jewish girls -- Fiction
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Vols d'endurance -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
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Women air pilots
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Endurance flights
Female friendship
Femmes
Femmes pilotes d'aéronef
Filles juives
Jewish girls
Vols d'endurance
Women
Women air pilots

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