In Search of the Woman who Sailed the World by Danielle Clode

In Search of the Woman who Sailed the World

Danielle Clode

352 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
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When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1776, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man and sailed on the 1766 Bougainville voya...

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