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    WATERFRONT

    Oct 21, 2020 4 minutes

    Win a book for Christmas

    ‘IN search of the woman who sailed the world’ is a rollicking true story and the publisher is providing you the chance to win one. Cruising Helmsman has three copies to give away as a Christmas present.

    Award-winning scientist and historian Danielle Clode set out to discover the story of Jeanne Barret, the first woman to sail the world, by following in her footsteps. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man and sailed on the 1766 Bougainville voyage as the naturalist's assistant. For over two centuries, the story of who this young woman was, why she

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