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Come Fly the World - The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace (Hardcover)
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Come Fly the World - The Women of Pan Am at War and Peace (Hardcover)
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List price R521
Loot Price R425
Discovery Miles 4 250
You Save R96 (18%)
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** 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.
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