The thirty-nine-year-old Amelia Earhart and her crew of two navigators, Fred Noonan and Harry Manning, crawled out of the wreckage, unsettled but otherwise unhurt. An extra crew member with extensive flight experience, Paul Mantz, had joined the flight to Hawaii. Rather than spending time practicing in the powerful Electra, Earhart had been crisscrossing the country, giving lectures, making sponsorship appearances, and attending promotional events. After the crash in Hawaii, Earhart faced reporters with a brittle smile, promising that she would mount another circumnavigation soon. An heir to the Putnam publishing empire, he was more than Earhart’s husband; he was her manager, dealmaker, and publicist.