A Woman of Courage: The Journal of Rose De Freycinet on Her Voyage Around the World 1817–1820 translated and edited by Marc Serge Rivière
SKU TBM9780642107671
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Product Details
Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780642107671
Author: Marc Serge Rivière (translator and editor)
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: National Library of Australia
Place: Canberra ACT
Year: 1996
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 189 pages
Period: 19th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Two faint marks on right foredge. Interior is excellent.
Married just three years, 22-year-old Rose de Freycinet refused to be separated from her husband Louis de Freycinet, a naval officer appointed by the French to command a round-the-world scientific expedition. Instead, flouting officialdom, Rose and Louis plotted for Rose to stow away.
Leaving the port of Toulon in September 1817 on board the Uranie, Rose documents her adventures in the form of letters to her friend Caroline and to her mother back in France. It is an intimate and colourful account of strange customs and little-known locations, culminating in a shipwreck in the Falkland Islands.
A Woman of Courage: The Journal of Rose De Freycinet on Her Voyage Around the World 1817–1820 translated and edited by Marc Serge Rivière
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