page_title: Rosita Forbes
hierarchical_section_title: Rosita Forbes
caption_attribution_description: The author as a Bedouin sheik. The secret of the Sahara&#160;: Kufara / by Rosita Forbes&#160;; with an introduction by Sir Harry Johnston, with 54 illustrations from photographs by the author, and a map.
context_page_description: Rosita Forbes, née Joan Rosita Torr, was an English travel writer, novelist and explorer. In 1920–1921 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya, in a period when this was closed to Westerners.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: A portrait of Rosita Forbes, published in The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara (1921); BHL25263784
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