The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara by Rosita Forbes. Read in English by Steven Seitel In an age when women were expected to remain at home, entertain, and rear children, Rosita Forbes elected "to boldly go where no one had gone before..." Like her older contemporary, Gertrude Bell (who was focused more in the Persian and Iraqi areas), Forbes held a profound love of the vast desert and the people who lived there. That love shines out in this engaging travelogue of her November 1920 - February 1921 adventure. The expedition took her deep into the Libyan desert to seek a remote location, revered by local peoples, that was protected from outside intrusion. Forbes was the first European woman, and only the second outsider, to reach Kufara, amid trials of difficult travel, complications with camels, differing priorities of personnel, political intrigue, outright betrayal, climate hardships, and near-disastrous wanderings off the route when water was short or gone. Her sharing of the surroundings, situations, and cultural nuances makes the reader feel as if you were right there with her, shading your eyes as you await the capture of the sunrise or sunset mirage that wi…

Directors & creators

Rosita Forbes

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;exploration; women; africa; explorer; camel; oasis; sahara; women's history; female explorer; caravan; hassanein bey; sayed; senussi; tuareg; zouia; kufara; hassanein; bey; sahara desert; kufara oasis; libya

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