Pacific lady: the first woman to sail solo across the world's largest ocean
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Beschreibung: | A widow finds the sea -- Fit for the journey -- The first sail -- Storm -- Whispers at sea -- A life to ponder -- A one-hand finish -- South Pacific interlude -- Queen Mary to Hollywood -- Another Sea Sharp -- Alone again on water -- Things fall apart -- 74 days, 17 hours, 15 minutes -- A pink return -- Sailing on 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 |
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