How Jeanne Baret, Disguised as a Man, Became the First Woman to Circle the Globe

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Tonight, drift off with the Jeanne Baret story, a true tale from 18th century France. Born to a poor farming family with a gift for plants, Jeanne Baret became assistant to the naturalist Philibert Commerçon. When he won a place on the Bougainville expedition to sail around the world, the French navy forbade women aboard its ships, so she bound herself in linen and boarded as a man. A woman disguised as a man, she carried the heavy work of the age of exploration and the history of botany across cold seas and warm, guarding an impossible secret, until she became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Hers is a hidden gem of circumnavigation history, female explorers history, and history legends. This is history for sleep at its gentlest, a calm audiobook made to help you get sleepy and unwind with history. Like all our audio books and audiobooks, it offers tranquil history and history for serenity, history to soothe the mind and history for serenity and harmony, as we explore the greatest minds in history.

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Chapters:

00:00:00 How Jeanne Baret, Disguised as a Man, Became the First Woman to Circle the Globe

00:45:43 Spartacus: Rise of the Gladiator Army

01:29:58 The Cottingley Fairies Hoax: How Two Little Girls Tricked the World

02:18:28 The Amazons: Warrior Women of the Ancient Steppe

03:01:02 King Tut: The Nearly-Forgotten Boy Pharaoh

03:46:21 Ireland's Pirate Queen: Grace O'Malley

04:35:31 The Unsolved Mystery of the Eilean Mòr Lighthouse

05:14:20 El Dorado: Relentless Search for the City of Gold

05:56:28 The Green Children of Woolpit: Miracle, Myth, or Misunderstanding?

06:35:26 Unsolved Mystery of the Oak Island Treasure Hunt

07:19:34 Nikola Tesla: A Life of Visionary Genius or Tragedy?

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