Jeanne Baret Was The First Woman To Circumnavigate The Globe — And She Disguised Herself As A Man To Do It

In 1766, Jeanne Baret secretly joined the first French naval voyage around the world by pretending to be the cabin boy of her lover, who was the expedition’s chief naturalist.

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