On Board the Boussole

Book no.	Series
9	My Australian Story

Also titled

Voyage to Botany Bay
Stowaway to Botany Bay

Author

Chrissie Michaels

Publisher

Scholastic Australia

Published

June 1, 2002^[1]

Pages

186

ISBN

9781865044354

Setting

Boussole

Timeline

July 1785 – March 1788

Preceded by

Publication

Who Am I?

Followed by

Chronology

Surviving Sydney Cove

Publication

The Bombing of Darwin

On Board the Boussole: The Diary of Julienne Fulbert is a book written by Christine Edwards, later Chrissie Michaels. The book is the ninth book in the My Australian Story series. It was first published in June 2002. It was reissued in July 2012 as Voyage to Botany Bay, and in July 2018 as Stowaway to Botany Bay.

Book description[]

"Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing only one thing about herself-her name. Soon she must abandon even that remnant of her identity. She becomes Jules, ship's boy, journeying to Botany Bay and beyond on a voyage of discovery for the glory of France led by Commander Lapérouse. Jules/Julienne sees new and strange things on board the Boussole, but what she would most like to discover is her own history: who is Julienne Fulbert?"

"I dared not move...I was a bread stealer. A chicken-feather villain. A salted mutton thief. I guiltily recalled the paper, the ink, the leather pouch I had stolen. And even though I had not intended it so...I was a stowaway.
Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing only one thing about herself—her name. Soon she must abandon even that remnant of her identity. She becomes Jules, ship's boy, journeying to Botany Bay and beyond on a voyage of discovery, led by Commander Lapérouse. Jules/Julienne sees new and strange things on board the Boussole, but what she would most like to discover is her own history: who is Julienne Fulbert?"

"I dared not move...I was a bread stealer. A chicken-feather villain. A salted mutton thief. I guiltily recalled the paper, the ink, the leather pouch I had stolen. And even though I had not intended it so...I was a stowaway.
Julienne roams the fortress tunnels of Brest, France, cold, hungry and knowing only one thing about herself—her name. Soon she must abandon even that remnant of her identity. She becomes Jules, ship's boy, journeying to Botany Bay and beyond on a voyage of discovery, led by Commander Lapérouse.
Julienne sees new and strange things on board the Boussole, but what she would most like to discover is her own history: who is Julienne Fulbert?"

Plot[]

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Characters[]

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Julienne Fulbert

Author[]

Main article: Chrissie Michaels

Chrissie Michaels, previously credited under the name Christine Edwards, is a children's literature author. She was born in Lancashire, England and moved to Melbourne, Australia at the age of six. On Board the Boussole was her first book for My Australian Story. She also wrote Convict Girl and Castle Hill Rebellion in the series. Michaels can speak and read French, which helped her with her research for On Board the Boussole. She was initially inspired to write the book while sailing off the coast of Mauritius.

Editions[]

Acknowledgements[]

"The author wishes to thank the following people and organisations for their support, and historical expertise:
Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney Des Cowley, Rare Books Curator, State Library of Victoria
Lapérouse Museum and Visitor Centre, Botany Bay Pierre-Louis Bérard, Président, Association Lapérouse, Albi, France
Reece Discombe, who between 1958 and 1964 rediscovered the exact site of the Astrolabe and located the site of the Boussole, for his correspondence and photographs
Warwick Hurst, Curator of Manuscripts, State Library of New South Wales
Two definitive historical works:
Russell Shelton, From Hudson Bay to Botany Bay, NC Press, Canada 1987
Capitaine de Vaisseau de Brossard, Rendez-vous avec Lapérouse à Vanikoro, Editions France-Empire, Paris, 1964
And to:
Leone Peguero
Devron, Ryan, Emily and Stuart Edwards."