![]() ![]() Come Fly the World opens an intimate porthole into the life they chose aboard Pan American.” - Air Mail “Female roles were transformed over the Pan Am decades, but stewardesses remained in a strange no-woman’s land-smiling, servile symbols of male fantasy but also working women traveling the globe in challenging jobs when most of their peers were at home with families. “Thoughtful, well-researched and utterly engaging, Come Fly the World is smart escapist journalism and a tribute to hundreds of women who were much more than just a crew of pretty faces….Journalist Julia Cooke paints a riveting, complex portrait of the adventurous lives of Pan Am stewardesses during aviation's golden age.” - Shelf Awareness ![]() “An entertaining, insightful look into a gritty and glamorous era in air travel.”- STARRED Kirkus Reviews “This engrossing account, which reads like a novel, offers a combination of riveting personal stories and little-known history, and will draw in readers from the first page. "A fascinating history of a bygone era.”-People " offers more than one delicious flavor of escapism." - Mythili G. ![]() "Julia Cooke's entertaining, sexism-skewering history shows how female flight attendants were also flag-flying diplomats." - Financial Times ![]()
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