The Geographical Journal, November 1st, 1997
Translated and edited by Marc Serge Riviere. Canberra: National Library of Australia, 1996, 189 pp. n.p. ISBN 0 642 10676 2
This is the first English translation of the journal Rose de Freycinet kept as she accompanied her husband Louis-Claude on the scientific voyage of his ship, the Uranie. Women were not allowed on voyages, but Rose and Louis arranged for her to come aboard disguised as a man in naval uniform. The French government heard about this conspiracy after the ship had sailed, and ordered Rose to give herself up to the French Governor at Bourbon Island (Reunion). But the Governo...
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