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- Title
Harriet Chalmers Adams: Remembering an American Geographer.
- Authors
Davis, Kathryn
- Abstract
Harriet Chalmers, a California native, was one of the most celebrated American explorers from 1904 until her death in 1937. She became an expert on Latin America, and her knowledge was valued by government and business and in academic circles. Adams was one of the first American women elected to membership in the Royal Geographic Society of London (1913). She was a prolific writer, contributing twenty-one articles to the National Geographic Magazine. Although she enjoyed widespread fame during her lifetime, she is virtually unknown in the history of geography. Adams, and many female contemporaries, is missing from the history of geography and exploration. This article, part of a larger work in progress, begins the task of recovering the intellectual contributions of American women explorers from the early twentieth century.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CHALMERS, Harriet; GEOGRAPHERS; EXPLORERS; AUTHORS; ROYAL Geographical Society (Great Britain)
- Publication
California Geographer, 2009, Vol 49, p51
- ISSN
0575-5700
- Publication type
Article