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Rose: The extraordinary story of Rose de Freycinet: wife, stowaway and the first woman to record her voyage around the world

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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 dressed in men's clothing and slipped secretly aboard his ship the day before it sailed on a voyage of scientific discovery to the South Seas. Living for three years as the sole female among 120 ...