Sin permiso del rey

The eminent researcher M. Teresa Telleria, director for many years of the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid and professor emeritus of the CSIC, collects in this book the incredible adventures of Jeanne Baret, a young woman of humble extraction who, in the 18th century, disguised as a man , participated in the Bougainville scientific expedition. Despite this unique feat and the fact that she was the first woman to complete the world tour, nothing she did today recalls her name. The conventions of her time and the wind of history took it upon herself to dispel her legacy. Jeanne Baret, victim of the contradictions of the time in which she lived, lived in the shadow of the Age of Enlightenment. With a limited succession of data, the author has managed to piece together the odyssey of a brave woman who risked her life out of a desire for freedom and rendered a service to science, still unpaid, in the field of botany.