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It had been an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a period when women simply didn't do might be found. None of this deterred Sharon Sites Adams. In June 1965, Adams made background as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland USA to Hawaii. Four years later, in the same way Neil Armstrong very publicly stepped onto the moon, the diminutive Adams, only and unobserved, finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after 74 days and nights sailing a 31-feet ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. She was the first woman to do so, arranging another world record. Inspiring and enjoyable, Adams's memoir recounts the non-public path leading to her historic accomplishments: a tomboy child years in the Oregon high desert, an early marriage and agonizing divorce, and a second marriage that finished when her man died of tumor. Inside the wake of his fatality and almost by accident, Adams found out sailing. Six weeks after her first sailing lesson, she bought a fishing boat, and within eight months, she attempt to achieve her first world record. Pacific Lady recounts the inward trip that paralleled her sailing feats, as Adams drew on every scrap of courage and navigational skill she could muster to get over the seasickness, exhaustion, and loneliness that marked her harrowing crossings. The publication is released by University or college of Nebraska Press.
