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

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

Adams, Sharon Sites
Reeves, Randall
Coates, Karen

Hardcover

Series: Outdoor Lives

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Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0803211384
ISBN13: 9780803211384
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.22 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
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.

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