Antique Uganda,south Africa,zanzibar,tanganika…..1924
Posted on March 10, 2010 | Category: Antique American Books
Carpenter’s World Travels UGANDA TO THE CAPE Uganda, Zanzibar,Tanganyika Territory, Mozambique, Rhodesia, Union Of South Africa by Franck G. Carpenter, 261 pages, with111 illustrations from original photographs and one map in colour, published by Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1924, 1st edition, book is in very good condition.
Partial Table of Contents
On lake Victoria
A talk with a king
The three dollar wives
Where the Nile begins
Dar el Salam and Swahili
At the tomb of an empire builder
Africa’s Niagara
The great Cullinan diamond
At the continent’s end
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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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