Eva Dickson (born Eva Lindstrom in 1905) was a Swedish explorer, rally driver, aviator and travel writer. She was the first woman to have crossed the Sahara desert by car, possibly the first female rally driver in Sweden (1925), and the third Swedish female aviator (1923). She was the daughter of the wealthy Albert Lindström, who managed stud farms for horse breeding and was raised at Ljung Castle. In 1925 she married the rally driver Olof Dickson, but they divorced in 1932 because he didn't agree to her frequent travels. She published several travel guides and descriptions of her experiences, often financing her travels by wagering with wealthy society people. In 1932 she met Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, the former spouse of Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa. They met in Kenya and soon became lovers. After their meeting, she took a bet and drove by car from Nairobi to Stockholm, becoming the first woman to have cross the Sahara by car. In 1934 she was back in Kenya where she participated in various scientific expeditions. The following year she travelled to Ethiopia to cover a crisis in Abyssinia as a war correspondent for The Weekly Journal, a Swedish newspaper. She and Baron von Blixen left Ethiopia on mules on a 124-mile trip back to Kenya. The couple was married in 1936 and spent their honeymoon sailing around Cuba and the Bahamas with their friends, Ernest and Pauline Hemingway. In 1937, Ms. Dickson began a car trip from Stockholm to Beijing on the Silk Road, a longtime dream. She drove alone through Germany, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Syria and Iran to Afghanistan, where she was warned that the trip was considered too dangerous for a woman and advised to detour through India. However, upon reaching Calcutta she became ill and was treated with arsenic, which worsened her condition. A shortage of funds and news of the coming Second Sino-Japanese war derailed her planned route to China, and she decided to drive back to Europe. She reached Baghdad in March, 1938, the ninth month of her trip, but never completed her journey—she lost control of her car after dinner at a friend’s home and died instantly. She was buried in Stockholm in 1938.