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Hidden hero: The 18th-century woman who sailed the seas - as a man
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Hidden hero: The 18th-century woman who sailed the seas - as a man
By Bianca Nogrady
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Danielle Clode
Picador, $34.99
‘‘We all stand on the shoulders of giants in our achievements, but it is difficult to find a firm foothold on the shoulders of those who have been erased from history.’’
For biologist and writer Danielle Clode, Jeanne Barret is one of those erased giants. A poor, illiterate French peasant woman, Barret overcame seemingly insurmountable barriers to become the first woman to circumnavigate the world in the 1770s, making substantial contributions to taxonomic collections along the way.
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