03045nam a22004697a 4500 pucpr 20241011113207.0 100430s2010 nyuaf b 001 0beng 9780307463524 hc. 0307463524 hc. 9780307463531 9780307463548 (OCoLC)ocn606763568 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda e-fr--- CARIBET G440.B225 R53 2010 910.4092 B 22 Ridley, Glynis. The Discovery of Jeanne Baret : a story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. / Glynis Ridley. txt First paperback edition United States : Broadway Paperbacks , 2010. x, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include index. Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-271) "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 -- The 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. 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. Explorers France 94117 lcc 6 First paperback edition G440.B225 General R53 2010 260176 260176 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2017-06-05 Amazon 12.82 0 General G440.B225 R53 2010 91000000049916 2019-09-27 00:00:00 1 22.82 2017-06-05 6 Pres. 2016-2017