Danielle Clode's Blog - Posts Tagged "age-of-sail"

The first woman to circumnavigate the globe was a French peasant woman from Burgundy, who dressed as a man, signed up as the botanist's assistant and sailed on Bougainville's voyage of discovery in 1767. How did an impoverished young woman from the lowest strata of French society achieve such an adventurous life? Little is known about who Jeanne really was and a lot of myths have developed around her. My latest book 'The Woman who Sailed the World' untangles fact and fantasy and paints a picture of a determined and stoic woman who achieved remarkable things in the face of adversity. I've explored her childhood and family in Burgundy through her extraordinary voyage to her long contented later life through the prism of my own experiences as a biologist and of growing up at sea. Due out with Picador Australia in June 2020.