Into the World

Into the World
Stephanie Parkyn
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Paperback
h198 x 128mm - 258pg
28 Nov 2018 AU
International import eta 7-19 days
9781760527464
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1791. In the midst of the French Revolution, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby son before entrusting him to her friend, the revolutionary Olympe de Gouges. She must escape, and only the most daring plan will bring her both the anonymity she needs and the independence to return one day for her son. Marie-Louise disguises herself as a man and joins a voyage of exploration employed as a steward on the Recherche, one of two ships commissioned to journey to the Great Southern Ocean to find the missing explorer La Perouse. Protecting her identity throughout, Marie-Louise forms friendships among the eccentric naturalists. But tensions rise between the royalist officers and the revolutionaries, and Marie-Louise's position becomes precarious when she discovers someone on board knows the secrets of her past. When the expedition docks in Java, chaos erupts as they learn of King Louis XVI's execution and are imprisoned by the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems certain to be unmasked. Will she ever return to France and be reunited with her child? Inspired by a true story, Into the World is a compelling novel of the amazing life of Marie-Louise Girardin battling perilous seas, her own self-doubt, and finding unforeseen loves on a journey to reclaim her child.
Stephanie Parkyn has wanted to be an author since writing her first earnest little stories and poems at primary school in Christchurch, New Zealand. But a love of science, research, and the environment led her to a PhD and a career as a freshwater ecologist. In 2010, she moved to Tasmania with her husband and embarked on her other passions of art and writing. Here she learned of a French scientific expedition and their first contact with Tasmanian Aboriginal people and of the woman who joined the voyage disguised as a man.
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ISBN-13: 9781760527464
Published: 28 Nov 2018
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 128mm
Pages: 258

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