Antique Africa,morocco,alger,tripoli,sahara,malta,1923
Posted on February 8, 2010 | Category: Antique American Books
Carpenter’s World Travels FROM TANGEIER TO TRIPOLI by Frank G. Carpenter, 273 pages, with 119 illustrations from original photographs & 1 map in color, published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1923, book is in very good condition.
Partial Table of Contents
IN THE LAND OF OTHELLO
BANDIT DAYS IN MOROCCO
IN SPANISH AFRICA
IN ORAN
BEHANZIN, KING OF THE AMAZONS
AN EXILED AFRICAN QUEEN
THE GARDEN OF ALLAH
AMID THE RUINS OF CARTHAGE
THE OASIS OF LIBYA
THE ISLAND OF MALTA
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Frank G. Carpenter
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Frank George Carpenter
Frank Carpenter near Hot Springs, Alaska
Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924), was an author, photographer, lecturer, collector of photographs. Carpenter was a writer of standard geography textbooks and lecturer on geography, and wrote a series of books called Carpenter’s World Travels which were very popular between 1915 and 1930.
With his daughter Frances, Carpenter photographed Alaska between 1910 and 1924. A collection of over 5,000 images were donated to the Library of Congress[1] by Frances at her death in 1972.
Frank G. Carpenter’s books include:
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: North America (1898)
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: South America (1899)
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Europe (1902)
Carpenter’s World Travels: Holy Land and Syria(1922)
Carpenter’s World Travels: Java and East Indies (1923)
Carpenter’s World Travels: The Tail of the Hemisphere – Chile & Argentina (1923)
Carpenter’s World Travels: The Alps, The Danube, and the Near East (1924)
Frank Carpenter talking to a police officer on a street in Russia
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Asia (1924)
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Canada (1924)
Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Mexico(1924)
Carpenter’s World Travels: Uganda to the Cape (1924)
Carpenter’s World Travels: Lands of the Andes and the Desert (1924)
Carpenter’s World Travels: Along the Parana and The Amazon (1925)
Alaska: Our Northern Wonderland (1925)[2]
The Houses We Live In (1926)
Carpenter’s World Travels: From Tangier to Tripoli (1927) 
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