Far Ocean (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625572394)

Vendor: Emily Mitchell
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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Far Ocean

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Far Ocean

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Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2025 Big Moose Prize, Far Ocean tells the story of 18th-century botanist and explorer Jeanne Baret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe. Born into poverty in rural France, Jeanne struggles to get by, helping her mother in her work as a traditional herbalist and healer. Following a chance meeting with botanist Phillibert de Commerson, Jeanne becomes first Commerson's teacher, then his mistress. She goes to live with him Paris, where he attempts to make his way in the exciting but insecure new world of Enlightenment science.

When Commerson is offered the position of Chief Naturalist on an upcoming voyage of discovery bound for the Pacific, Jeanne presents herself as a boy and convinces Commerson to let her accompany him as his assistant, setting in motion a journey to the most distant places on earth. It's a voyage filled with previously unimaginable experiences, but when things begin to go badly for the expedition, Jeanne finds herself in danger. She must determine where her loyalties ultimately lie to protect herself and those she loves--and to preserve the hope of one day finding her way home.

Author: Emily Mitchell
ISBN-10: 1625572395
ISBN-13: 9781625572394
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/2027
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
By Emily Mitchell
By Emily Mitchell
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Emily Mitchell is the author of three previous works of fiction, most recently The Church of Divine Electricity, winner of the 2023 Elixir Press Fiction Award. Her short stories have appeared in Harpers', Ploughshares, The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Missouri Review and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the New Statesman and Guernica. She served as fiction editor of New England Review from 2018 to 2026. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Maryland and lives near Washington DC.

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