Rosita Forbes
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Rosita Forbes, née Joan Rosita Torr (16 January 1890 - 30 June 1967) was an English travel writer and explorer. In 1920-21 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra
Oasis in Libya
(together with the egyptian explorer Ahmed Hassanein
), in a period when this was closed to westerners.
Kufra
Kufra is a basin and oasis group in Al Kufrah District, southeastern Cyrenaica in Libya. Kufra is historically important above all because at the end of nineteenth century it became the center and holy place of the Senussi order...
Oasis in Libya
Libya
Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
(together with the egyptian explorer Ahmed Hassanein
Ahmed Hassanein
Ahmed Hassanein Pasha, KCVO, MBE or Aḥmad Moḥammad Makhlūf Ḥasanēn al-Būlākī was an Oxford-educated Egyptian courtier, diplomat, Olympic athlete in fencing, photographer, writer, politician, explorer and tutor to King Farouk.Ahmed Hassanein was one of the most influential figures in Egyptian...
), in a period when this was closed to westerners.
Works
- Unconducted wanderer, 1919
- The secret of the Sahara: Kufara, 1921
- The sultan of the mountains; the life story of Raisuli, 1924
- From Red sea to Blue Nile; Abyssinian adventure, 1925 (also published under the title From Red Sea to Blue Nile; a thousand miles of Ethiopia?)
- Adventure, 1928
- Conflict; Angora to Afghanistan, 1931
- Eight republics in search of a future; evolution & revolution in South America, 1932
- Women called wild, 1935
- Forbidden road--Kabul to Samarkand, 1937
- These are real people, 1937
- A unicorn in the Bahamas, 1939
- India of the princes, 1939
- These men I knew, 1940
- Gypsy in the sun, 1944
- Appointment with destiny, 1946
- Henry Morgan, pirate, 1946
- Sir Henry Morgan, pirate & pioneer, 1948
- Islands in the sun, 1949
External links
- Rosita Forbes Biography
- Forgotten Travellers: Appointments in the Sun Essay on Rosita Forbes