Rose. The Extraordinary Story Of Rose De Freycinet. Wife, Stowaway And The First Woman To Record Her Voyage Around The World

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 404 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, who defied tradition for love.In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear being parted from her husband, she dressed in mens clothing and surreptitiously slipped aboard his ship the day before it sailed on a voyage of scientific discovery to the South Seas. Living for three years as the sole female among 120 men, Rose de Freycinet defied not only bourgeois societys expectations of a woman in 1817, but also a strict prohibition against women sailing on French naval ships.From dancing at Governors balls in distant colonies, to evading pirates and meeting armed Indigenous warriors on remote Australian shores, to surviving shipwreck in the wintry Falkland Islands, Rose used her quick pen to record her daily experiences, becoming the first woman to circumnavigate the world and leave a record of her journey. Suzanne Falkiner tells the story of Roses courage, enduring love, curiosity and spirit of adventure, using contemporaneous accounts as well Roses journal and letters.

ISBN: 9780733342356