Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Al-Raisuni

Forbes's interviewee, a brigand and a powerful political manager in Morocco (which was currently a Spanish protectorate), masterminded more than one strategic kidnapping of a westerner. She preserves the biblical flavour which El Raisuni 's...

In El Raisuni : the Sultan of the Mountains, RF published the results of long hours interviewing her subject about himself and his life: the substance of this book, except for her introduction, derives from him.

Both of them continued to be great travellers, together or separately. A visit which RF planned to Yemen (again in the guise of Khadija) in 1922 was supposed to lead on to a crossing of...