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Why read it?
1 author picked Lady Icarus as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is about one of our most brilliant female aviators.
Largely forgotten today, the Irish Lady Heath, one of our first female Olympians and the first woman in Britain to hold a commercial pilot’s licence, was also the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to England in 1928.
Her flight was the inspiration for my first expedition up Africa in 2013, about which we made a documentary screened by the BBC, and this book is the moving story of Mary Heath’s exceptional but ultimately tragic life.
From Tracey's list on The best books on pioneering aviation.
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