Rosita Forbes
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Standard Name: Forbes, Rosita
Indexed Name: Joan Rosita Forbes
Birth Name: Joan Rosita Torr
Married Name: Rosita McGrath
Used Form: Joan Rosita Torr Forbes
Used Form: Rosita Torr
North Africa and the Middle East, on which she became something of an expert. Before her later books, which are about the Caribbean, she wrote of other places including India and South America. Her several novels give a good deal of emphasis to their exotic settings.
was a popular travel writer of the earlier twentieth century. Her travel books are often flavoured with adventure, and she also published books of biography, essays, stories, political and social commentary, and memoirs, all closely related to her travel experience. She specialised at first in Timeline
Texts
Forbes, Rosita. A Fool’s Hell. T. Butterworth, 1923.
Forbes, Rosita. A Unicorn in the Bahamas. Jenkins, 1939.
Forbes, Rosita. Adventure. Cassell, 1928.
Forbes, Rosita. Appointment with Destiny. Cassell, 1946.
Forbes, Rosita. Conflict: Angora to Afghanistan. Cassell, 1931.
Forbes, Rosita. Eight Republics in Search of a Future. Cassell, 1933.
Forbes, Rosita. El Raisuni: the Sultan of the Mountains. Thornton Butterworth, 1924.
Forbes, Rosita. Forbidden Road—Kabul to Samarkand. Cassell, 1937.
Forbes, Rosita. From Red Sea to Blue Nile: Abyssinian Adventures. Cassell, 1925.
Forbes, Rosita. Gypsy in the Sun. Cassell, 1944.
Forbes, Rosita. India of the Princes. Gifford, 1939.
Forbes, Rosita. Islands in the Sun. Evans Brothers, 1949.
Forbes, Rosita. Quest. Cassell, 1922.
Forbes, Rosita. The Jewel in the Lotus. Cassell, 1922.
Forbes, Rosita. The Prodigious Caribbean: Columbus to Roosevelt. Cassell, 1940.
Forbes, Rosita. The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara. Cassell, 1921.
Forbes, Rosita. These Are Real People. Jenkins, 1937.
Forbes, Rosita. These Are Real People. E. P. Dutton and Co., 1939.
Forbes, Rosita. These Men I Knew. Hutchinson, 1940.
Forbes, Rosita. Unconducted Wanderers. John Lane, 1919.
Forbes, Rosita. Women Called Wild. Grayson and Grayson, 1935.