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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.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Crown Publishers,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

x, 288 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Baret, Jeanne,--1740-1807.
Commerson, Philibert,--1727-1773.
Bougainville, Louis-Antoine de,--comte,--1729-1811.
Women explorers--France--Biography.
Women botanists--France--Biography.
Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-271) and index.

Contents:

"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.

ISBN:

0307463524
9780307463524

LCCN:

2010016778

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

GSPC501 -- Colfax Public Library (Colfax)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

RKPA371 -- Rippey Public Library (Rippey)