Rose: The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet: Wife, Stowaway and the First Woman to Record her Voyage Around the World

Suzanne Falkiner

The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dre...