Rosita Forbes, 1920's British explorer

[WilliamBoyd8]

Has anyone here heard of Rosita Forbes?

I stopped by the local library yesterday and found an old book for sale.
People frequently leave books outside the library for the library to sell.

The book was From Red Sea to Blue Nile by a Rosita Forbes, published in 1925.

The title was intriguing, I am a sucker for old travel books, so I looked through it.
I had never heard of Rosita Forbes before.

It was about a trip Rosita made with a man named Jones through Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

It had black and white illustrations, and a dedication
"To Abyssinia and her heir-apparent H.I.H., Ras Tafari".

I looked Rosita up on the internet and she was quite a gal.
http://www.slideshare.net/eleuthera/rosita-forbes-biography

 

[Mickiana]

Thanks for that. A very good read. I have not heard of her before now.

 

[WilliamBoyd8]

More from Rosita, this time in Afghanistan...

From Forbidden Road - Kabul to Samarkand (1937):

For the few remaining inhabitants of Bamyan believe that Shahr-i-Gholgola "the place of sorrow", is haunted by a race of wolf-men who are human by day and animal at night. The attribute the loss of their cattle to the predatory instincts of these creatures who were once warriors, prematurely slaughtered by Genghis Khan in revenge for the death of his grandson.

Something for the next Indiana Jones film?