Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Rosita Forbes

Born: January 16, 1890
Died: June 30, 1967 (aged 77)
Bio: Rosita Forbes, née Joan Rosita Torr was an English travel writer and explorer. In 1920-21 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya, in a period when this was closed to westerners.
Known for:
- The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara (1921)
- Unconducted wanderers (1919)
- Forbidden road--Kabul to Samarkand (1937)
- Women of all Lands (1938)