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

By Sharon S Adams; Karen Coates; Richard Reeves

Book information

Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780803218642, 9780803211384
LCC
G530.A132 -- A33 2008eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2010299 bytes)
Series
Outdoor Lives
Edition
1
Pages
234\234
Time added
2023-08-15 23:52:36
AdamsSharon Sites -- Travel -- Pacific Ocean. ; Single-

Description

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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