Harriet Chalmers Adams

       
     Harriet Chalmers Adams

She was born on the 22nd of October

1875 in Stockton, California.

Her parents were Alexander Chalmers

and Frances Wilkens. She married to Franklin Pierce Adams. She was

a journalist and an explorer.

In 1904 she embarked on her first expedition on a three-year journey through South America with her husband.

Between 1907 and 1935 she wrote 21 articles for the ilustrated National Geographic with her photos, among them there are ”Some wonderful views in the Andes",”Kaledoscope La Paz city of clouds”and ”Paraguay surrounded by rivers”.In 1925 she helped to create the Society of women Geographers. She died in Nize on July 17th,1937 at the age of 61.

In an obituary of the Washington Post was called ”a confident hunter of savages who were never tired of travelling the most remote corners of the world".

David Delgado 2ºA