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Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle captures the spirit of a fictional pilot who attempted a bold circumnavigation and who was modeled on Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson, Jean Batten, and pilots who flew in Alaska, and who served in World War II in the women’s division of the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA).