To disappear is different than to be destroyed.
Among the distinctions his books have achieved is inspiring a Resolution in Congress and several TV documentaries..
Quasar stands out for his detailed investigation of popular topics and cold cases.
Aside from his strange name, Gian J.
Then Came the Dawn is a critical look at the theories and, insofar as it bears on them, the career of Amelia Earhart.
In this volume, the focus is on that final dawn she vanished and what has come about since then.
It is time for a biography of Earhart\'s disappearance rather than yet another biography of the famed aviatrix.
Often only thinly connected to the facts, they have become Earhart\'s unintended legacy.
In themselves these theories have become their own reality.
Yet why were they not repatriated to the United States? Every theory conceived since 1937 has tried to explain this.
These and other clues have come together to instill the instinctive feeling that Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan survived.
Natives on Saipan said a white woman had been brought ashore by their Japanese occupiers, fate thereafter unknown.
Native Marshallese declared a white woman flier had been picked up and taken away by the Japanese.
A Pacific island radio operator picked up a garbled message indicating Earhart had survived ditched on an island.
This has opened a door to many theories about her ultimate fate.
The circumstances were such there was room to doubt she simply crashed at sea.
Over its most harrowing expanse-the vast Pacific-she vanished.
At the climax of her career, she decided to tackle the world-a flight approximating the circumference of this planet, a flight never undertaken before by man or woman.
Challenging the dangers of flight, this scrawny, androgynous yet charming tomboy typified courage rising over adversity.
She exemplified progress and daring, and she beCame an irrepressible example of the budding unstoppable womanhood.
She was charismatic and courageous.
It was not just skill that had given her the heady heights of fame she enjoyed.
At the moment she vanished she was regarded as the world\'s foremost aviatrix.
This has been the fate of Amelia Earhart.
It is to remain forever alive but frozen in limbo.
To disappear is different than to be destroyed
