A little-known botanist who was also the first woman to circumnavigate the world, Jeanne Baret made a splash with her plant discoveries and her outlandish lifestyle. To be allowed on the French naval ship that planned a global expedition, Jeanne dressed like a man and masqueraded as "Jean" for years! During this expedition Jeanne and her coworker discovered and catalogued thousands of plants, including the famous, magenta floral vine called bougainvillea. Follow us as we explore the life and adventure-filled global expedition of Jeanne Baret in episode seven of The Inventing HerStory Podcast.

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Sources:
Talking History Online: The Circumglobal and Upwardly Mobile Life of Jeanne Barret https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fethpew18WM&t=633s&ab_channel=HistoryTrustofSouthAustralia
Jeanne Baret - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Baret
Bouganvillea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainvillea 
Londa Schiebinger, Jeanne Baret: the first woman to circumnavigate the globe, Endeavour, Volume 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 22-25, ISSN 0160-9327, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-9327(03)00018-8 

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