Ebook: Pacific Lady : The First Woman to Sail Solo across the World's Largest Ocean
Author: Sharon S Adams, Karen Coates, Richard Reeves
- Tags: Adams Sharon Sites -- Travel -- Pacific Ocean., Single-handed sailing -- Pacific Ocean., Sailors -- United States -- Biography., Women sailors -- United States -- Biography.
- Series: Outdoor Lives
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- City: Lincoln, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Inspiring and exciting, Adamss 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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