Rosita Forbes

Rosita Forbes
Born(1890-01-16)16 January 1890
Died30 June 1967(1967-06-30) (aged 77)
OccupationsTravel writer, novelist and explorer

Rosita Forbes, née Joan Rosita Torr, (16 January 1890 – 30 June 1967) was an English travel writer, novelist and explorer. In 1920–1921 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.

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