Pacific lady : the first woman to sail solo across the world's largest ocean

著者

• Adams, Sharon Sites
• Coates, Karen J.

書誌事項

Pacific lady : the first woman to sail solo across the world's largest ocean

Sharon Sites Adams with Karen J. Coates ; foreword by Randall Reeves

（Outdoor lives）

University of Nebraska Press, c2008

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Alone Part 1. Out to Sea 1. A Widow Finds the Sea 2. Fit for the Journey 3. The First Sail 4. Storm 5. Whispers at Sea 6. A Life to Ponder 7. A One-Hand Finish Part 2. Adventure on Water 8. South Pacific Interlude 9. Queen Mary to Hollywood Part 3. Across the Pacific 10. Another Sea Sharp 11. Alone Again on Water 12. Things Fall Apart 13. 74 Days, 17 Hours, 15 Minutes 14. A Pink Return Part 4. In the Wake of Fame 15. Sailing On Glossary

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA88723582
• ISBN:
  • 9780803211384
• LCCN: 2008010457
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lincoln
• ページ数/冊数: xiv, 193 p., [19] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : G530.A132
  • DC22 : 910.9164902
  • DC22 : B
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Adams, Sharon Sites -- Travel -- Pacific Ocean
  • LCSH : Sailing, Single-handed -- Pacific Ocean
  • LCSH : Sailors -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Women sailors -- United States -- Biography
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA88723516