A special "Author's Autograph Edition" of 150 signed and numbered copies was also produced in 1928.

Each copy of this special edition contained a miniature silk American flag carried by Earhart in her flight on the Friendship from Boston to Wales.

[1] In this book, Earhart writes about her experiences as a passenger in the Friendship, which made her the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air in 1928 (she later accomplished the feat in a solo flight).

Earhart combines actual log entries made during the flight with recollections of her childhood and how she first became interested in aviation.

In this chapter she writes, Possibly the feature of aviation which may appeal most to thoughtful women is its potentiality for peace.