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.
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