Sailing Against the Tide

<p><strong style=color: rgba(9 47 55 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>She crossed oceans disguised as a boy.</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(9 47 55 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>History forgot her-but now her story demands to be told.</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 47 55 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>In 1766 Jeanne Baret a brilliant herbalist from rural France defied every expectation of her time. Disguised as a boy to escape the restrictions placed on women.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 47 55 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>She joins a global expedition led by explorer Louis de Bougainville and her mentor the botanist Philibert Commerson.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 47 55 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Aboard L'Étoile Jeanne faces grueling sea voyages the constant threat of discovery and the burden of a secret that could cost her everything. But with every plant she gathers and every mile she sails she proves that courage and intellect know no gender.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(9 47 55 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Based on the astonishing true story of the first woman to circumnavigate the globe Jeanne Baret is a sweeping tale of resilience adventure and a woman who dared to chart her own course through history.</span></p><p></p>