Bücher von Mary S. Lovell

Mary S. Lovell's bestselling biography The Sound of Wings is the basis for the major movie Amelia, starring Richard Gere and Hilary Swank.When Amelia Earhart mysteriously disappeared in 1937 during her attempted flight around the world, she was already known as America's most famous female aviator. Her sense of daring and determination, rare for women of her time, brought her insurmountable fame from the day she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. In this definitive biography, Mary S. Lovell delivers a brilliantly researched account on Earhart's life using the original documents, letters, the logbooks of Earhart and her contemporaries, and personal interviews with members of Amelia's family, friends and rival aviators. The Sound of Wings vividly captures the drama and mystery behind the most influential woman in "The Golden Age of Flight"-from her tomboy days at the turn of the century and her early fascinations with flying, to the unique relationship she shared with G.P. Putnam, the flamboyant publisher and public relations agent who became both her husband and her business manager. This is a revealing biography of an uncommonly brave woman, and the man who both aided and took advantage of her dreams.

?Ich will leben ... Ich will ein wildes, unstetes, abenteuerliches Leben führen ... Ich wünschte, ich wäre ein Mann. Könnte ich das sein, wäre ich Richard Burton; doch da ich eine Frau bin, möchte ich Richard Burtons Frau sein ... Ich würde jetzt, in diesem Augenblick, alles aufgeben und opfern, um seinem Schicksal zu folgen ...? (Isabel Burton, aus einem Brief an ihre Mutter). Aus diesen Zeilen spricht die tiefe, leidenschaftliche Liebe Isabel Arundells zu dem Forschungsreisenden und Orientalisten Richard Burton ? zuerst durch seine Erfolge im viktorianischen England gefeiert, später aufgrund von Gerüchten und seines unangepassten, rebellischen Verhaltens vom Establishment geächtet. Schon früh wusste Isabel, die aus altem katholischen englischen Adel stammte, dass sie mit dem zehn Jahre älteren Mann ihr Leben verbringen und die Welt bereisen will. Trotz des erbitterten Widerstands ihrer Mutter heiratete die temperamentvolle, starke, unabhängige Frau den skandalumwitterten Abenteurer. Richard und Isabel Burton erkundeten die entlegensten Orte der Erde in Indien, Arabien, Damaskus u. v. m., wo sie teilweise haarsträubende Abenteuer erlebten. Authentisch, einfühlsam und mit gebührendem Respekt hat Mary S. Lovell ein mitreißendes Porträt zweier Leben verfasst.

"The best account yet available of this shrewd, enigmatic and remarkable woman."-Sunday Times [London]

Their marriage was both improbable and inevitable. Isabel Arundell was a schoolgirl, the scion of England's most distinguished Catholic family. When she first saw him while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist (he was fluent in twenty-nine languages), scholar, soldier, and explorer--at once a symbol of Victorian England's vision of empire and an avowed rebel against its mores. When she turned and saw him staring after her, she decided that she would marry him. By their next meeting, Burton had become the first infidel to infiltrate Mecca as one of the faithful, and, in an expedition to discover the source of the Nile, would soon be the first white man to see Lake Tanganyika. After being married, the Burtons traveled and experienced the world, from diplomatic postings in Brazil and Africa to hair-raising adventures in the Syrian desert. In later life Richard courted further controversy as a self-proclaimed erotologist and the translator of The Kama Sutra. Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her proper place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right.