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Pacific Lady

- The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World's Largest Ocean
Af: Karen Coates, Sharon Sites Adams Engelsk Hardback

Pacific Lady

- The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World's Largest Ocean
Af: Karen Coates, Sharon Sites Adams Engelsk Hardback
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It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn’t do such things. None of this deterred Sharon Sites Adams. In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland United States to Hawaii. Four years later, just as Neil Armstrong very publicly stepped onto the moon, the diminutive Adams, alone and unobserved, finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after seventy-four days sailing a thirty-one-foot ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. She was the first woman to do so, setting another world record.
 
Inspiring and exciting, Adams’s memoir recounts the personal path leading to her historic achievements: a tomboy childhood in the Oregon high desert, an early marriage and painful divorce, and a second marriage that ended when her husband died of cancer. In the wake of his death and almost by accident, Adams discovered sailing. Six weeks after her first sailing lesson she bought a boat, and within eight months she set out to achieve her first world record. Pacific Lady recounts the inward journey that paralleled her sailing feats, as Adams drew on every scrap of courage and navigational skill she could muster to overcome the seasickness, exhaustion, and loneliness that marked her harrowing crossings.
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It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didn’t do such things. None of this deterred Sharon Sites Adams. In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland United States to Hawaii. Four years later, just as Neil Armstrong very publicly stepped onto the moon, the diminutive Adams, alone and unobserved, finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after seventy-four days sailing a thirty-one-foot ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. She was the first woman to do so, setting another world record.
 
Inspiring and exciting, Adams’s memoir recounts the personal path leading to her historic achievements: a tomboy childhood in the Oregon high desert, an early marriage and painful divorce, and a second marriage that ended when her husband died of cancer. In the wake of his death and almost by accident, Adams discovered sailing. Six weeks after her first sailing lesson she bought a boat, and within eight months she set out to achieve her first world record. Pacific Lady recounts the inward journey that paralleled her sailing feats, as Adams drew on every scrap of courage and navigational skill she could muster to overcome the seasickness, exhaustion, and loneliness that marked her harrowing crossings.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9780803211384
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0803211384
Kategori: Sejlads
Udg. Dato: 1 sep 2008
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 140mm
Højde: 216mm
Forlag: University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato: 1 sep 2008
Forfatter(e): Karen Coates, Sharon Sites Adams
Forfatter(e) Karen Coates, Sharon Sites Adams

Kategori Sejlads

ISBN-13 9780803211384

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 240

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 140mm

Højde 216mm

Udg. Dato 1 sep 2008

Oplagsdato 1 sep 2008

Forlag University of Nebraska Press