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A Negro explorer at the North Pole / by Matthew A. Henson ; new introduction by Robert M. Bryce ; foreword by Robert E. Peary ; preface by Booker T. Washington.
LIBRA G635.H4 A3 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.
- African American explorers--Biography.
- African American explorers.
- North Pole--Discovery and exploration.
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.
- Arctic Regions.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- lxii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Cooper Square Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cooper Square Press : Distributed by National Book Network, 2001.
- Summary:
- Henson's autobiography retells the explorer's 400-mile polar trek by dogsled over treacherous ice with Robert E. Peary in 1909.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : F. Stokes, 1912. With new intro.
- ISBN:
- 0815411251
- OCLC:
- 46866277
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