Thursday, June 20, 2019

The first woman to sail around the world was a cross-dressing botanist

It was a bold plan, if not a very creative one. Because she was a woman, Jeanne Baret was not permitted to sail on a French naval vessel. So the plan was she would dress as a man and present herself at the dock where Louis Antoine De Bougainville was preparing to embark on the […]

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