The Secret of Jeanne Baret: Based on a true story - Paperback

by Helen C. Strahinich (Author)

THE SECRET OF JEANNE BARET is the true untold story of the first woman ever to circumnavigate the Earth. In 1767, Jeanne Baret, a French girl, disguised herself as a boy and signed up as botanist's assistant aboard an exploration ship bound for the South Pacific with 200 crewmen. This real-life adventuress with big dreams and amazing grit had been lost to history. . .until now.

Author Biography

Helen Strahinich has written hundreds of short stories, nonfiction articles, novellas, and poems for children and young adults during a twenty-five-year career in education publishing.