"Bougainville's ship Bodeuse carried an astronomer aboard along with a well-known botanist, Philibert Commerson. None of them were prudish, so they responded to the Tahitians' easy, sensual living with appreciative delight."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 191
chained_bear commented on the word Bodeuse
"Bougainville's ship Bodeuse carried an astronomer aboard along with a well-known botanist, Philibert Commerson. None of them were prudish, so they responded to the Tahitians' easy, sensual living with appreciative delight."
--Joyce Appleby, Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination (New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), p. 191
December 28, 2016