The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe

by Glynis Ridley
  • List Price: $25.00
  • ISBN-10: 0307463524
  • ISBN-13: 9780307463524
  • Edition: 1st
  • Type: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Crown

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The year was 1765. Eminent botanist Philibert Commerson had just been appointed to a grand new expedition: the first French circumnavigation of the... Read more

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