15 Notable Travelers and Their Adventures
| June 12, 2017
2. Jeanne Baret
Baret is recognized as the first woman to travel around the world, which she did in 1766 in the expedition of Louis Antoine de Bougainville. She had to disguise her identity and joined the crew as a man, named Jean Baret.
She was enlisted as the valet of the expedition’s naturalist Philibert Commerçon, as she herself was an expert botanist. The trip took three years, and her gender was only discovered in Tahiti in 1768, after having passed Rio de Janeiro and Patagonia.
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