The discovery of Jeanne Baret

a story of science the high seas and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe

The discovery of Jeanne Baret

a story of science the high seas and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe
Glynis Ridley
Book - 2010

In a deeply researched 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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37413313709265 Sẵn có Non-fiction B-BARET RIDLEY
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Tác giả chính: Ridley, Glynis
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: New York : Crown Publishers, c2010.
Phiên bản:1st ed.
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300 |a x, 288 p., [8] p. of plates :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
505 0 |a "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 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a In a deeply researched 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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