Frank G. Carpenter

Frank George Carpenter (May 8, 1855 in Mansfield, Ohio – June 18, 1924 in Nanking ) was a journalist, traveler, travel writer, photographer, and lecturer. Carpenter was a writer of geography textbooks and lecturer on geography, and wrote a series of books called Carpenter's World Travels. His writings helped popularize cultural anthropology and geography.

Biography

Early life Carpenter was born in Mansfield, Ohio, son of George F. and Jennette L. Carpenter. He was charged with sending a "letter" each week to twelve periodicals, describing life in the countries to which he traveled.

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." thumb

Works

Books by Frank G. Carpenter.

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) France to Scandinavia (1923) New Zealand and some islands of the South Pacific (1923) The Alps, The Danube, and the Near East (1924) Canada and Newfoundland (1924) Mexico (1924) Uganda to the Cape (1924) Along the Parana and The Amazon (1925) China (1925) Japan and Korea (1925) Land of the Caribbean (1925) Through the Philippines and Hawaii (1925) Lands of the Andes and the Desert (1926) The British Isles and the Baltic States (1926) Carp's Washington (1960, ed. by Frances Carpenter)

Carpenter's Readers of Commerce and Industry series (pub by American Book Company) South America: Social, Industrial and Political (1900) How the World is Fed (1907) How the World is Clothed (1909) How the World is Housed (1911) Around the World with the Children (1917)

Carpenter's New Geographical Readers series (pub by American Book Company) South America (1923) Europe (1922) North America (1922) Asia (1923) Africa (1923)

Carpenters' Journey Club Travels series (pub by American Book Company). Co-author Frances Carpenter. The Houses We Live In (1926) The Clothes We Wear (1926)

Additional Information Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection at the Library of Congress Frank G. Carpenter Papers, 1855-1924 , Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.