RF
's earliest travelling companion, Armorel Meinertzhagen
, became her good friend. Forbes made personal contacts easily, and exacted help on the road from all sorts of highly unlikely individuals, one of them Benito Mussolini
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Rosita Forbes
RF
's first book, Unconducted Wanderers, described her round-the-world travel and adventures with a female friend, Armorel Meinertzhagen
.
Mavrogordato, E. E. “Unconducted Wanderers”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 909, 19 June 1919, p. 335.
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Rosita Forbes
But her first major travels were two successive expeditions with a woman friend, Armorel Meinertzhagen
. Both were devoid of physical fear (though RF
was full of mental anxieties) and refused to acknowledge the meaning...