In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World
$31.62
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
29 September 2020
Summary
A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald.
When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, 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 voyage as the naturalist’s assistant. For over two centuries, the story of who this young woman was, why she left her ho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760784959 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760784958 |
| Author: | Danielle Clode |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Picador Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 29 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 445g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 157mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Danielle Clode
Danielle Clode is an award-winning author, biologist, and research fellow at Flinders University. She grew up on a boat, worked in zoos, museums and universities and has spent many years as a freelance researcher, editor, writer and teacher. Her first book on French exploration, Voyages to the South Seas, won the 2007 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction, and most recently The Wasp and the Orchid was shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award.
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