This is a paperback book called "MONSIEUR BERET: FIRST WOMAN AROUND THE WORLD 1766-68" by John Dunmore; published by Heritage Books, Auckland in 2002 [pp. 198].

This copy is in excellent unmarked condition.

This is the story of an ordinary Frenchwoman of extraordinary courage and determination, who braved everything in order to stay at her lover-master's side -even the peril's of life aboard an 18th century French navy ship. John Dunmore, a world authority on French naval history, relates with humour and compassion the life of a small-town girl who became the first woman of any race to circumnavigate the globe.