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Forbes, Anna
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Forbes, Anna[bella (Keith), Mrs.]
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1855-1922
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Annabella Keith Forbes was born in 1855 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
She was a Scottish naturalist, traveller, and travel writer. She travelled extensively with her husband, Henry Ogg Forbes, a distinguished Scottish explorer, ornithologist, and botanist. She published the book “Unbeaten tracks in islands of the Far East: experiences of a naturalist's wife in the 1880's.“ It takes the reader from Batavia (then the capital of the Dutch East Indies) to Celebes, the Moluccas, the Nutmeg Islands, and finally Timur, where the book ends dramatically with the author, alone and stricken by fever, awaiting her husband's return from the dark interior.
In 1882, she married Henry Ogg Forbes (1851–1932). She died in December 1922 in London, England.
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https://lccn.loc.gov/n88282651