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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. Purchase the audio edition.
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