The Discovery of Jeanne Baret : : a Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe
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"A list of medicinal plants" : the botanist and the herb woman -- "To Jeanne Baret, also known as Jeanne de Bonnefoy" : a changed identity in Paris -- "A masquerade of devils" : crossing the line -- "Placing me under arrest" : the Bougainvillea and the South Atlantic -- "His beast of burden" : on the shores of the Strait of Magellan -- "Venus showed herself" : Tahiti exposed -- "The location of hell" : Baret on New Ireland -- "The true promised land" : making a home on Mauritius and botanizing on Madagascar -- "A monument more durable than a pyramid" : journey's end.
In a deeply researched and engagingly written narrative of science, adventure, love, and an unprecedented voyage of discovery, Ridley reveals the true story of Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: x, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307463524
0307463524
SUBJECTS
Baret, Jeanne, -- 1740-1807.
Commerson, Philibert, -- 1727-1773.
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de, -- comte, -- 1729-1811.
Explorers -- France -- Biography.
Women explorers -- France -- Biography.
Botanists -- France -- Biography.
Women botanists -- France -- Biography.
Bougainvillea.
Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800.