02891nam a22004337a 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020002400064020002100088020001800109020001800127035002400145040003400169043001200203050002400215082002000239100002000259245014400279250002800423264005100451300005600502336002600558337002800584338002700612500001900639504005600658505081800714520056001532600003102092600003802123600005602161650003402217650004002251650003402291650004002325650001902365650005102384650002202435pucpr20241011113207.0100430s2010    nyuaf    b    001 0beng    a9780307463524 qhc.  a0307463524 qhc.  a9780307463531  a9780307463548  a(OCoLC)ocn606763568  apucprbengcpucprdpucprerda  ae-fr---00aG440.B225bR53 201000a910.4092aB2221 aRidley, Glynis.14aThe Discovery of Jeanne Baret :ba story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. /cGlynis Ridley.htxt  aFirst paperback edition  aUnited States :bBroadway Paperbacks ,c2010.   ax, 288 p., [8] p. of plates :bill. ;c25 cm.fbook  2rdacontentatextbtxt  2rdamediaaunmediadedbn  2rdacarrieravolumebnc  aInclude index.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [251]-271) 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 -- Epilogue: What happened next -- Afterword to the paperback edition -- Notes and references -- A note on texts, translations, naval time, and names -- Sources and select bibliography -- Illustration credits -- Acknowledgments -- Index --   aThe year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the world. As the ships' official naturalist, Commerson would seek out resources--medicines, spices, timber, food--that could give the French an edge in the ever-accelerating race for empire.

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.10aBaret, Jeanne,d1740-1807.10aCommerson, Philibert,d1727-1773.10aBougainville, Louis-Antoine de,ccomte,d1729-1811. 0aExplorerszFrancevBiography. 0aWomen explorerszFrancevBiography. 0aBotanistszFrancevBiography. 0aWomen botanistszFrancevBiography. 0aBougainvillea. 0aVoyages around the worldvEarly works to 1800. 0aExplorerszFrance