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“Great Circle” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There–after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes–Marian commences her lifelong love affair with flight. At fourteen she drops out of school and finds an unexpected and dangerous patron in a wealthy bootlegger who provides a plane and subsidizes her lessons, an arrangement that will haunt her for the rest of her life, even as it allows her to fulfill her destiny: circumnavigating the globe by flying over the North and South Poles.

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Maggie Shipstead has outdone herself in this extraordinary tale of resilience and perseverance, constructed with two parallel storylines of two complex women. Marian Graves and her twin brother, Jamie, are raised by an alcoholic/gambling addict uncle, in the wilds of Montana, during the Prohibition days. The fateful story of their parents is told with superb detail in the early pages of the book. Marian and Jamie become well educated in the natural world, where they spend a lot of time, and their uncle ensures that their literacy and creative spirits thrive. Besides Marian, Jamie has a story with many adventures, and his fate is inextricably bound with Marian’s. At an early age, Marian becomes self-sufficient and ambitious, especially after witnessing a husband and wife pilot team that visit for a show. She is determined to fly planes–and do whatever it takes to save the money (her uncle squandered much of their inheritance). Marian is disciplined, courageous, and highly intelligent, as well as physically strong. Moreover, she is devoted to Jamie. Yes, she has assistance from a wealthy cattle rancher with a stake in criminal enterprises, but most of her accomplishments were despite him, not because of him. She becomes a legendary aviatrix.