Rosita Forbes
Rosita Forbes, née Joan Rosita Torr (16 January 1890 - 30 June 1967) was an English travel writer and explorer.[1] 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. [2]
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
Notes
- ↑ Rosita Forbes at the Orlando Project
- ↑ Bertarelli (1929), p. 514.
Sources
- Bertarelli, L.V. (1929). Guida d'Italia, Vol. XVII (in Italian). Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana.
External links
- Rosita Forbes Biography
- Forgotten Travellers: Appointments in the Sun Essay on Rosita Forbes