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Author:
Ridley, Glynis.
Title:
The discovery of Jeanne Baret : a story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe / Glynis Ridley.
Publisher:
Broadway Paperbacks,
Copyright Date:
2011
Description:
291 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
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.
Voyages around the world--Early works to 1800.
Notes:
Includes notes and references, sources and select bibliography, index, and reader's guide.
Summary:
Documents the pioneering round-the-world journey of the adventurer, tracing how she disguised herself as a boy to accompany her lover, botanist Philibert Commerson, on his eighteenth-century voyage before her true gender was exposed.
ISBN:
0307463532
9780307463531
OCLC:
(OCoLC)707968453
Locations:
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)
SKPC094 -- Sumner Public Library (Sumner)

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