Amelia Earhart's Shoes

Thomas F. King is a well known archaeological consultant specializing in the protection of cultural resources, author of five books, and archaeologist on the Amelia Earhart Project. Randall S. Jacobson is a geophysicist with the U.S. Navy, an expert on oceanic seismic activity and naval mine-hunting technology, and author of over 40 professional articles. Karen Ramey Burns is a consulting forensic anthropologist specializing in human identification based at the University of Georgia, has worked at crime scenes, mass murder sites, cemeteries, and disaster scenes on five continents, and is author of a major textbook on forensics. Kenton Spading is an engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers specializing in computers and remote sensing technology.

Although we still do not know where we might find Amelia Earhart's lost plane, here is a compelling scientific argument for one place to look.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 1. Where in the World is Amelia Earhart?Chapter 3 2. The Lady in QuestionChapter 4 3. The Navigator and the AirplaneChapter 5 4. DisappearanceChapter 6 5. After the Search: Asumptions, Assertions, and Conspiracy TheoriesChapter 7 6.Getting Hooked on EarhartChapter 8 7. McKean, Gardner, and the PISSChapter 9 8. First Time on NikuChapter 10 9. Can't Find that TrainChapter 11 10. Hope Springs EternalChapter 12 11. Amelia's Shoe?Chapter 13 12. "We Did It!" or NotChapter 14 13. The Skeptic and the KiwisChapter 15 14. Back to the Winward SideChapter 16 15. The Shattered Shores of NikuChapter 17 16. Harassed by Hina, Favored in FunafutiChapter 18 17. After the StormChapter 19 18. Kanton in the RainChapter 20 19. Bones for RealChapter 21 20. Flesh on the BonesChapter 22 21. Whose Bones, and Where?Chapter 23 22. Meanwhile...Chapter 24 23. "Where the Plane Came Down"Chapter 25 24. Trying to Make Sense of It AllChapter 26 25. What Happened on the Night of July 2?Chapter 27 26. And Then? And Now?Chapter 28 Epilogue: 2001 and BeyondChapter 29 Notes