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050 0 0 _aG440.B225
_bR53 2010
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100 1 _aRidley, Glynis.
_950198
245 1 4 _aThe discovery of Jeanne Baret :
_ba story of science, the high seas, and the first woman to circumnavigate the globe /
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bCrown Publishers,
_c�2010.
300 _ax, 288 pages, [8] pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
520 _aIn 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.
600 1 0 _aBaret, Jeanne,
_d1740-1807.
_950199
600 1 0 _aCommerson, Philibert,
_d1727-1773.
_950200
600 1 0 _aBougainville, Louis-Antoine de,
_ccomte,
_d1729-1811.
_950201
600 1 7 _aBaret, Jeanne,
_d1740-1807.
_2sears
_950202
600 1 7 _aCommerson, Philibert,
_d1727-1773.
_2sears
_950203
600 1 7 _aBougainville, Louis-Antoine de,
_ccomte,
_d1729-1811.
_2sears
_950204
650 0 _aExplorers
_zFrance
_vBiography.
_950205
650 0 _aWomen explorers
_zFrance
_vBiography.
_950206
650 0 _aBotanists
_zFrance
_vBiography.
_950207
650 0 _aWomen botanists
_zFrance
_vBiography.
_950208
650 0 _aBougainvillea.
_950209
650 0 _aVoyages around the world
_vEarly works to 1800.
_950210
650 7 _aExplorers
_zFrance
_vBiography.
_2sears
_950211
650 7 _aWomen explorers
_zFrance
_vBiography.
_2sears
_950212
650 7 _aBotanists
_zFrance
_vBiography.
_2sears
_950213
650 7 _aWomen botanists
_zFrance
_vBiography.
_2sears
_950214
650 7 _aBougainvillea.
_2sears
_950215
650 7 _aVoyages around the world
_vEarly works to 1800.
_2sears
_950216
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