Amelia Earhart Unrescued: A Conversation with Dr. Tom King

A lot of it was just imagining myself in Earhart’s shoes on Nikumaroro and thinking about what she’d do."

Our first three-peat on the podcast, Dr. Tom King formally of TIGHAR returns for a different kind of discussion on his third sit down with us. Dr. King's latest novel, "Amelia Earhart Unrescued" is a prequel to his earlier novel "13 Bones" and takes a unique approach in telling the story of the final days of Amelia Earhart's life as she battled the elements, and herself on Nikumaroro Island. Combining his thirty years of research on the "castaway hypothesis" with some creative liberty and elements of fiction, Dr. King provides an interesting look at what Amelia Earhart must have endured if she ended up on Nikumaroro on the morning of July the 2nd 1937.

Tonight, as season two of the Chasing Earhart podcast continues, Dr. King joins us via Zoom to discuss his new novel, his thoughts on what might have happened to Amelia Earhart had she successfully returned from her world flight and recent events regarding his career and professional future in Archaeology.

[dougburt]

I would like to believe that one of the 2, 940 lbs. Pratt & Whitney Wasp engines could be located.

[muttnface]

They seem so convinced that Amelia was on Gardner Island but they don't make any assumptions of Noonan. There were 2 people in that plane Dr King.

[genevadugger]

I hope they really find out what happened to Amelia Earhart

[frederickbowdler]

I will buy this book if finances allow few people know as much as Tom and his enthusiasm shows!!

[neatstuff]

Is it not interesting that the government let her die. For example her last day on Earth the Colorado had stopped by Howland to refuel the Itasca. That was the day before the radio signals stop from Amelia and the plane washed out to sea. Bob Ballard will find it next time somewhere close to the tail end of the shipwreck. That's 800' underwater. A lightweight airplane on the other hand might just drift all the way down. Is something like a feather in the wind.

[rodmclaren]

Refer Dan Brown author Da Vinci Code and others. He seems to undertake excellent research. You’re errors are forgiven. Nothing is set in concrete!