The Fun of It combines Amelia Earhart’s personal history with an account of aviation during its early decades. She describes her childhood, her introduction to flying, learning to pilot aircraft and the experiences that established her public career. The book revisits her 1928 Atlantic crossing aboard the Friendship, recreational and record-setting flights, and her 1932 solo crossing of the Atlantic.

Earhart also gives substantial attention to women’s place in aviation. She profiles earlier female aeronauts and contemporary pilots, examines the obstacles women encountered and considers their growing participation in professional and recreational flying. Alongside these historical and autobiographical sections, she discusses developments in aircraft, air travel and possible future routes. The book therefore records both Earhart’s own involvement in aviation and a wider period when flying was moving from experimental endeavour towards an increasingly established form of transport.