Rosita Forbes at Jaghbub crossing the Sahara Desert
Rosita Forbes (1890-1967), English travel writer and explorer at Jaghbub (a remote desert oasis village in the eastern Libyan Desert)shortly before setting out on the final stage of her return journey to Egypt, having crossed the vast inhospitable expanse of the Sahara Desert, becoming the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya (together with the Egyptian explorer Ahmed Hassanein)
Picture No
10920800
Media ID
47616600
Size
3500px x 4802px
(3.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration based on a painting by Salomon van Abbe (1883-1955) from Newnes' Pictorial Knowledge Vol II p369
Date
circa 1921
