of the Royal Geographical Society, and received medals from the Royal Antwerp Geographical Society and the French Geographical Society, and an award in 1924 from the Royal Society of Arts. She also made an early travel film, From Red Sea to Blue Nile, and two of her novels became silent films (Fighting Love (1927) and The White Sheik (1928), based on her novels If the Gods Laugh and King's Mate, respectively). Her 1924 biography, The Sultan of the Mountains: The Life Story of Raisuli, was loosely adapted for the screen in 1972 by John Milius as The Wind and the Lion. Personal life Joan Rosita Torr married Col. Robert Foster Forbes in 1911. They divorced after she left him in 1917, selling her wedding ring and sailing for South Africa. She was married again in 1921, to Col. Arthur Thomas McGrath. She was widowed in 1962, and she died in 1967, at home in Warwick, Bermuda, aged 77 years. Works by Rosita Forbes Non-fiction Unconducted Wanderers, 1919 The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara, 1921 The Sultan of the Mountains: The Life Story of Raisuli, 1924 From Red Sea to Blue Nile: Abyssinian Adventure, 1925 (also published under the title From Red Sea to Blue Nile: A Thousand Miles of Ethiopia?) Adventure, 1928 Conflict: Angora to Afghanistan, 1931 Eight Republics in Search of a Future: Evolution & Revolution in South America, 1932 Women called Wild, 1935 Forbidden Road--Kabul to Samarkand, 1937 (also published under the title Russian Road to India--By Kabul and Samarkand) These Are Real People, 1937 A Unicorn in the Bahamas, 1939 India of the Princes, 1939 These Men I Knew, 1940 Gypsy in the Sun, 1944 Appointment with Destiny, 1946 Henry Morgan, Pirate, 1946 Sir Henry Morgan, Pirate & Pioneer, 1948 Islands in the Sun, 1949 Selected novels If the Gods Laugh (1925) Sirocco (1927) King's Mate (1928) The Cavaliers of Death (1930) The Extraordinary House (1934) The Golden Vagabond (1936) References External links The National Portrait Gallery has several images of Rosita Forbes, including one political cartoon. Margaret Bald, ed., From The Sahara to Samarkand: Selected Travel Writings of Rosita Forbes, 1919-1937 (Axios Press 2010). Forgotten Travellers: Appointments in the Sun Essay on Rosita Forbes Rosita Forbes at the British Film Institute English travel writers English women non-fiction writers British women travel writers English explorers Female explorers Explorers of Africa Explorers of the Libyan Desert 1890 births