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

Description: Pacific Lady by Sharon Sites Adams, Karen Coates, Randall Reeves In June 1965 Adams made history as the first woman to sail solo from the mainland US to Hawaii. Four years later she finally sighted Point Arguello, California, after seventy-four days sailing a thirty-one-foot ketch from Japan, across the violent and unpredictable Pacific. This memoir recounts the inward journey that paralleled her sailing feats. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description It was an age without GPS and the Internet, without high-tech monitoring and instantaneous reporting. And it was a time when women simply didnt 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, Adamss 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. Notes The story of the first woman to sail solo from the mainland US to Hawaii and then from Japan to the US Author Biography Sharon Sites Adams, Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year in 1969, is a popular speaker, making appearances and telling her story before various organizations and gatherings. Karen J. Coates is a journalist, a correspondent for Gourmet magazine, and a contributor to numerous publications, including Archaeology, the Christian Science Monitor, and Fodors Travel Guides. She is the author of Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War. Table of Contents ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: AlonePart 1. Out to Sea1. A Widow Finds the Sea2. Fit for the Journey3. The First Sail4. Storm5. Whispers at Sea6. A Life to Ponder7. A One-Hand FinishPart 2. Adventure on Water8. South Pacific Interlude9. Queen Mary to HollywoodPart 3. Across the Pacific10. Another Sea Sharp11. Alone Again on Water12. Things Fall Apart 13. 74 Days, 17 Hours, 15 Minutes14. A Pink ReturnPart 4. In the Wake of Fame15. Sailing OnGlossary Review "A thrilling adventure story and an engaging read, Pacific Lady is a book of detail and depth. Sharon Sites Adamss remarkable achievements inspire us to find our own oceans and sail on through the highs and lows of our own lives." Amy Racina, author of Angels in the Wilderness "Eight-thousand miles of open ocean, with the same navigational tools used by Columbus, and no way to communicate. This is one gutsy lady. Widowed at thirty-four, she escaped into the world of sailing for the first time, bought her own boat, and sailed into history. As the press put it, A woman who dared and won. This is the stuff movies are made from." Martel Scroggin, author of Wasco, The Moonlighters, and The Sheepshooters "Pacific Lady tugged at me from the opening story. Even though I know nothing about sailing and solo ocean crossings, I was mesmerized by Sharon Sites Adamss determination, curiosity of the world, and intrepid spirit. When she embarked on her trip across the Pacific Ocean alone, I simply could not put down the book until I knew that she had made it safely home. Karen Coates has done a graceful job of translating this singular story into spare, elegant prose. I will never forget it." Shauna James Ahern, author of Gluten-Free Girl: How I Found the Food That Loves Me Back and How You Can Too Promotional The story of the first woman to sail solo from the mainland US to Hawaii and then from Japan to the US Kirkus US Review A seafaring Amelia Earhart chronicles her pioneering sailing career.In 1969, Adams, aboard the Sea Sharp II, was completing her journey from Yokohama, Japan, to San Diego, Calif., becoming the first woman to single-handedly sail the Pacific. Four years earlier, at 35 and in the wake of her second husbands untimely death, she had - amazingly, with only eight months sailing experience - become the first woman to journey solo from Los Angeles to Hawaii. With journalist Coates (Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War, 2005), Adams recounts both voyages, undertaken at a time before cell phones, computers and GPS removed much of the risk, when the whole idea of a "lady-sailor" placing herself in such jeopardy inspired controversy. Modestly, Adams makes no great claims for her seamanship or courage, nor does she confess a desire to have achieved any "firsts," either as a mariner or a woman. Rather, she says, "I simply wanted to sail...alone and didnt see why I couldnt." Notwithstanding the troubled personal life only briefly discussed here - early adoption into an unhappy household, the death of two husbands and divorce from two more, the abandonment her two young children - Adams eschews introspection or grand pronouncements on the meaning of it all. Instead, her story, which certainly contains moments of excitement and discovery, dwells on the sheer banality of such sea ventures, emphasizing the need for persistent labor and attention in the face of freely confessed loneliness, fear, depression, nausea, injury and uncertainty. She devotes a few chapters to her globe-trotting life between and after her notable solo sails, crewing in the South Pacific, joining the Queen Marys final voyage and working at the Marina del Rey, but the heart of this book and her importance to history rests with her solo conquest of the vast Pacific.A straight-ahead, determined account by a straight-ahead, determined woman. (Kirkus Reviews) Review Quote "Using the logbooks, diaries and tape-recordings from her solo voyages, Adams has retained the authenticity of a womans place in the 1960s. This record of Adams extraordinary and understated adventures adds to the history of womens single-handed sailing."-Madie Armstrong, Sports in History Details ISBN0803211384 Author Randall Reeves Short Title PACIFIC LADY Publisher University of Nebraska Press Language English ISBN-10 0803211384 ISBN-13 9780803211384 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2008 Imprint University of Nebraska Press Place of Publication Lincoln Country of Publication United States Subtitle The First Woman to Sail Solo across the Worlds Largest Ocean DOI 10.1604/9780803211384 UK Release Date 2008-09-01 AU Release Date 2008-09-01 NZ Release Date 2008-09-01 US Release Date 2008-09-01 Pages 240 Series Outdoor Lives Publication Date 2008-09-01 DEWEY 910.45092 Illustrations 24 photographs, 4 figures, map Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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