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<p><p>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&#8217;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. <BR>&#160;<p>Inspiring and exciting, Adams&#8217;s memoir recounts the personal path leading to her historic achievements&#58; 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. <I>Pacific Lady</I> recounts the inward journey th

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Author

Sharon S Adams; Karen Coates; Richard Reeves

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281958259

Category

travel

Subjects

Anthropology, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.88 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13