Pacific Lady: The First Woman to Sail Solo Across the World's Largest Ocean
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0803211384
ISBN13:9780803211384
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.01 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 8.7"
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