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Rosita Forbes

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. (From Wikipedia)

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Associated author:

Johnston, Harry, 1858-1927

Books by Rosita Forbes:

Forbes, Rosita: The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara (New York: George H. Doran company, 1921), contrib. by Harry Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)
Forbes, Rosita: Unconducted Wanderers (London and New York: J. Lane, 1919) (multiple formats at archive.org)

Additional books by Rosita Forbes in the extended shelves:

Forbes, Rosita: Account rendered (Macaulay, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust)
Forbes, Rosita: A fool's hell, (H. Holt and Company, 1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
Forbes, Rosita: The secret of the Sahara: Kufara. (Cassell and Co., 1921) (page images at HathiTrust)

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