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

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adams, Sharon Sites
Otros Autores: Coates, Karen J., 1971-
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Colección:Outdoor lives.
Temas:
Adams, Sharon Sites > Travel > Pacific Ocean.
Single-handed sailing > Pacific Ocean.
Sailors > United States > Biography.
Women sailors > United States > Biography.
Navigation à voile en solitaire > Pacifique, Océan.
Marins > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes marins > États-Unis > Biographies.
TRAVEL > Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
TRAVEL > Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL > Budget.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
TRAVEL > Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL > Reference.
TRAVEL > Road Travel.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Adventure.
TRAVEL > General.
Sailors
Single-handed sailing
Travel
Women sailors
Pacific Ocean
United States
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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