Please join us for our discussion of The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley. Born in 1740, Jeanne Baret accompanied botanist Philibert Commerson on France’s first expedition to circumnavigate the globe. However... women were forbidden. What did she do? Dress as a man and go! Question is: was she able to fool the 330 other men on the voyage? For three years? Read to find out!
