The discovery of Jeanne Baret : a story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe / Glynis Ridley.
Ridley, Glynis.
2010
G440.B225 R53 2010 (Mapit)
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Title The discovery of Jeanne Baret : a story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe / Glynis Ridley.
Author Ridley, Glynis.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780307463524
0307463524
Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
Language English
Description x, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Call Number G440.B225 R53 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 910.4092 B
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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

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