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  • Location: Worldwide

Great Circle

Great Circle

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1950s: The astonishing lives of a 1950s vanished female aviator and the Hollywood actress who plays her on screen.

  • ISBN: 978-1529176643
  • Genre: Fiction, Inspired by true events

What you need to know before your trail

From her days as a wild child in prohibition America to the blitz and glitz of wartime London, from the rugged shores of New Zealand to a lonely iceshelf in Antarctica, Marian Graves is driven by a need for freedom and danger.

Determined to live an independent life, she resists the pull of her childhood sweetheart, and burns her way through a suite of glamorous lovers. But it is an obsession with flight that consumes her most.

Now, as she is about to fulfil her greatest ambition, to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole, Marian crash lands in a perilous wilderness of ice.

Over half a century later, troubled film star Hadley Baxter is drawn inexorably to play the enigmatic pilot on screen. It is a role that will lead her to an unexpected discovery, throwing fresh and spellbinding light on the story of the unknowable Marian Graves.

Travel Guide

 

Great Circle Maggie Shipstead

Map from the novel

This664 page novel follows the journey of a female pilot, Marian Graves, who in 1950 attempted to fly the ‘great circle’ around the earth. A journey which took her around the North and South Pole.

The story starts shortly before Marian’s birth and takes us up to 2015 when a movie is being made about her life and that amazing real life early flight.

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Destination/Location: worldwide Author: Maggie Shipstead   Departure: 1950s

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