Suzanne Falkiner

The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married the handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dressed in men's clothing and slipped secretly aboard his ship the...

Unpackaged Tours is a collection of linked travel stories drawn from diaries kept by author Suzanne Falkiner while travelling overland from Sydney to Paris in the early 1970s, and later through South America and beyond. Part memoir and part travel narrative, it captures a vanished world before smartphones, budget airlines, and the internet transformed the experience of travel. In the...