![]() It will be published and receive some modest attention, and later it will inspire a novel, Wings of Peregrine, upon which the movie will be based. They disappear somewhere near the Ross Ice Shelf, where Marian’s journal will later be discovered, wrapped in a life jacket. But Marian and her navigator, Eddie Bloom, never make it back. ![]() In Marian’s case, her flight begins in Auckland New Zealand, is planned to head north and across the Arctic Circle, and then south again to eventually traverse the Antarctic continent, before returning to New Zealand. In flying parlance, a great circle is a circumnavigation of the globe following the shortest route possible. Maggie Shipstead’s third novel, Great Circle, is primarily the story of Marian Graves, who begins her career as a pilot in the 1930s, flying for a booktlegger, Barlcay Macqueen, and the story of Hadley Baxter, a contemporary actress who is about to play Marian in a new biopic, Peregrine, which focuses on Marian’s attempt to fly her C-47 Dakota in a great circle around the world. ![]()
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