Travel & Exploration
FORBES
(Rosita, 1890-1967, Traveller & Writer)
Fine signature and date
on a card, 4 x 2½, no place, 14th May
Item Date: 1926
£40
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Background
In 1920–1921 Forbes 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.
Stock No. 42811
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