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| Picture No | 10920800 |
| Date | circa 1921 |
| Description | Rosita Forbes at Jaghbub crossing the Sahara Desert |
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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).
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| Source | Illustration based on a painting by Salomon van Abbe (1883-1955) from Newnes' Pictorial Knowledge Vol II p369 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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