Jean Batten - The Garbo of the Skies

A great woman ... but perhaps a sad human being in many ways.

– Beth Jacobs, widow of a Jamaican doctor who treated Batten

The Girl Who Beat All The Men!

– Daily Express headline on her record breaking solo flight from Australia to England

In flying I found the two things that meant everything to me: the intoxicating drug of speed and the freedom to roam the earth; I knew I was destined to be a wanderer.

– Narration from Batten’s unpublished memoirs