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  • Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo Across the World's Largest Ocean

  • Outdoor Lives
  • Written by: Sharon Sites Adams, Karen Coates
  • Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
  • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo Across the World's Largest Ocean

Written by: Sharon Sites Adams, Karen Coates
Narrated by: Lee Ann Howlett
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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 74 days sailing a 31-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.

The book is published by University of Nebraska Press.

©2008 Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (P)2015 Redwood Audiobooks
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What the critics say

"Adams' inspirational tale is a groundbreaking journey worth taking." ( Booklist)
"A truly inspiring story for anyone dreaming of taking on a challenge!" ( The Feast)
"This record of Adams' extraordinary and understated adventures adds to the history of women's single-handed sailing." ( Sports in History)

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