In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World

By Danielle Clode

A VOYAGE of discovery, nature and untold histories, written in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald.

When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1775, she returned home without any fanfare at all.

Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man an...