The discovery of Jeanne Baret : a story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe /
Ridley, Glynis.
The discovery of Jeanne Baret : a story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe / Glynis Ridley. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, ©2010. - x, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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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Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975
2010016778
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.
G440.B225 / R53 2010
910.4092 R545d
The discovery of Jeanne Baret : a story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe / Glynis Ridley. - 1st ed. - New York : Crown Publishers, ©2010. - x, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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.
9780307463524 0307463524 9780307463531 0307463532
Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975
2010016778
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.
G440.B225 / R53 2010
910.4092 R545d