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.
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