She returned to France three years later as a heroine after a voyage which had taken her to South America, South Africa, Mauritius, West Australia, Timor, the Moluccas, New Guinea, the Carolines, Guam, Hawaii, Samoa and New South Wales. They had survived hardships ranging from an attack by Algerian pirates to their shipwreck in the Falklands, when the Uranie was wrecked in French Bay, forcing Freycinet to purchase the American ship Mercury for the return voyage to France. Rose's journal was compiled from her journal kept for a close friend, and supplemented for this publication with various letters written during the voyage to her mother. She was an acute observer, and gave an honest, first-hand account of the voyage. Other descriptions of the voyage mention her only with circumspection, as her presence on board was distinctly against the rules. Her journal was not published in this form until a century after the voyage, and it has since formed the basis of several other works (including Marnie Bassett's Realms and Islands and Phoebe Vincent's A woman of courage: The journal of Rose de Freycinet on her voyage around the world 1817-1820).--Hordern House website, retrieved June 2022.