Stephanie ParkynStephanie 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 eclogist. 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. Read More Read Less