Barbara Toy, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Barbara Toy

Australian writer

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1908

Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Date of Death: 18-Jul-2001

Profession: screenwriter, writer, playwright

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Barbara Alex Toy FRGS (11 August 1908 – 18 July 2001) was an Australian-British travel writer, theatrical director, playwright, and screenplay writer.
She is most famous for the series of books she wrote about her pioneering and solitary travels around the world in a Land Rover, undertaken in the 1950s and 1960s.
Toy was drawn to deserts, and so the majority of her journeys were in the arid lands of Northern Africa and the Middle East.
Toy's first solo journey took place almost five years before the perhaps more celebrated six-man team Oxford and Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition, a London to Singapore overland trip between September 1955 and March 1956 that was also undertaken in Land Rovers.