Frank G. Carpenter (1855–1924)
Auteur van Carpenter's Geographical Reader: North America
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Werken van Frank G. Carpenter
Carpenter's Geographical Reader - Australis, Our Colonies , and Other Islands of the Sea (1904) 6 exemplaren
Java and the East Indies: Java, Sumatra, Celebes, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Borneo, and the Malay Peninsula (1925) 6 exemplaren, 1 bespreking
The Alps, the Danube and the Near East: Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Rumania,… (1934) 4 exemplaren
The Foods We Eat 3 exemplaren
Through the Philippines and Hawaii 3 exemplaren
How the World is Fed 2 exemplaren
Uganda to the Cape;: Uganda, Zanzibar, Tanganyika Territory, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Union of South Africa, 2 exemplaren
Australia, New Zealand, and Some Islands of the South Seas: Australia, New Zealand, Thursday Island, The Samoas, New… (1925) 2 exemplaren
Travels through Asia with the children, 1 exemplaar
Uganda to the Cape. Uganda, Zanzibar, Tanganyika Territory, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Union of South Africa 1 exemplaar
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Our Colonies, And Other Islands Of The Sea. Australia (2012) 1 exemplaar
How the world is housed / by Frank G. Carpenter. 1 exemplaar
Cairo to Kisumu 1 exemplaar
Australia, Our Colonies, And Other Islands Of The Sea - Carpenter's Geographical Reader (1904) 1 exemplaar
From Bangkok to Bombay 1 exemplaar
How the world is fed 1 exemplaar
North America 1 exemplaar
The British Isles and the Baltic states 1 exemplaar
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Carpenter collected enough assignments with newspaper syndicates and Cosmopolitan Magazine to pay for a trip around the world in 1888-1889.[4] He was charged with sending a "letter" each week to twelve periodicals, describing life in the countries to which he traveled.[4] He continued to travel extensively, logging 25,000 miles in South America in 1898, and later doing letter-writing tours of Central America, South America, and Europe.[4] From the mid 1890s until he died, Carpenter traveled almost continuously around the world, authoring nearly 40 books and many magazine articles about his travels.[3] His travels and writings were so extensive historians have trouble placing his exact whereabouts at any given time, though his books speak to where he went.[3]
His writings include personal memoirs and what he called 'geographical readers' for use in geography classes.[3] These would remain standard texts used in American schools for forty years.[4] His writings helped popularize cultural anthropology and geography.[4] He has been noted for his 1922 study of the regeneration of Europe after WWI, and the first granted interview with Chinese statesman Li Hung Chang.[3]
He traveled with his wife, and while not traveling they stayed in Washington, D.C., or at their home near the Shenandoah Valley in the summers.[3] He had two children.[4] His real estate holdings in Washington made him a millionaire.[4] He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, the National Press Club, and numerous scientific societies.[4]
With his daughter Frances Carpenter, Carpenter photographed Alaska between 1910 and 1924. A collection of over 5,000 images were donated to the Library of Congress by Frances at her death in 1972. The collection at the Library of Congress totals approximately 16,800 photographs and about 7,000 negatives.[5][6]
Carpenter died of sickness in 1924 while in Nanking, China, on his third round the world trip. The Boston Globe obituary observed he "always wrote fascinatingly, always in a language the common man and woman could understand, always of subjects even children are interested in. [He] had a genius for finding out things, and the things that interest everyone, and then for writing them interestingly."[3][7]
Frank Carpenter talking to a police officer on a street in Russia
Carpenter with Jafet Lindeberg
Works[edit]
Books by Frank G. Carpenter.[3]
Carpenter's Geographical Readers series (pub by the American Book Company)
Asia (1897)
North America (1898)
Through Asia with the children (1898)
Through America with the children (1898)
South America (1899)
Europe (1902)
Australia, our colonies and other islands of the sea (1904)
Africa (1905)
Carpenter's World Travels series (pub by Doubleday):
Holy Land and Syria(1922)
From Tangier to Tripoli (1923)
Alaska: our Northern Wonderland (1923)
The Tail of the Hemisphere: Chile and Argentina (1923)
Cairo to Kisumu (1923)
Java and East Indies (1923)… (meer)