In search of the woman who sailed the world / Danielle Clode.
Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : Picador/Pan Macmillan Australia, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Description: xii, 335 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- cartographic image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781760784959 (paperback)
- Baret, Jeanne, 1740-1807
- Baret, Jeanne, 1740-1807
- Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, comte, 1729-1811
- Voyages around the world -- 18th century
- Plant collectors
- Travelers
- Voyages around the world
- Voyages and travels -- History -- 18th century
- Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800
- Bougainvillea
- Explorers -- France -- Biography
- Botanists -- France -- Biography
- Women explorers -- France -- Biography
- Women naturalists -- France -- Biography
- Women botanists -- France -- Biography
- Voyages around the world -- History -- 18th century
- Plant collectors -- Biography
- Travelers -- France -- Biography
- France
- Mauritius
- Mauritius -- History -- 18th century
- 910.92 23
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Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 910.92 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90589 |
In the book the name of Jeanne Baret is spelled Jeanne Barret.
Includes bibliographical references.
When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man and sailed on the 1766 Bougainville voyage as the naturalist's assistant. For over two centuries, the story of who this young woman was, why she left her home to undertake such a perilous journey and what happened when she returned has been shrouded in uncertainty.
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