2 options
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
Available from offsite location
LIBRA - Rare G635.H4 A3 2001
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.
- Henson, Matthew Alexander.
- African American explorers--Biography.
- African American explorers.
- North Pole--Discovery and exploration.
- North Pole.
- Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.
- Arctic regions.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Arctic Ocean--North Pole.
- Arctic Regions.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- lxii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Cooper Square Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cooper Square Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Henson's autobiography retells the explorer's 400-mile polar trek by dogsled over treacherous ice with Robert E. Peary in 1909.
- Contents:
- Early years: Schoolboy, cabin-boy, seaman, and Lieutenant Peary's body-servant, first trips to the Arctic
- Off for the Pole: How the other explorers looked, the lamb-like Esquimos, arrival at Etah
- Finding of Rudolph Franke, Whitney landed, trading and coaling, fighting the ice-packs
- Preparing for Winter at Cape Sheridan, Arctic library
- Making Peary sledges, hunting in the Arctic night, excitable dogs and their habits
- Peary plan, rain of rocks, my friends the Esquimos
- Sledging to Cape Columbia, hot soldering in cold weather
- In camp at Columbia, literary igloos, magnificent desolation of the Arctic
- Ready for the dash to the Pole, commander's arrival
- Forward! March!
- Fighting up the polar sea, held up by the "Big Lead"
- Pioneering the way, breaking sledges
- Supporting-parties begin to turn back
- Bartlett's farthest north, his quiet good-bye
- The Pole!
- Fast trek back to land
- Safe on the Roosevelt, poor Marvin
- After musk-oxen, doctor's scientific expedition
- Roosevelt starts for home, Esquimo villages, new dogs and new dog fights
- Two narrow escapes, arrival at Etah, Harry Whitney, Dr. Cook's claims
- Etah to New York, coming of mail and reporters, home!
- Appendix I
- Notes on the Esquimos
- Appendix II
- List of Smith Sound Esquimos.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : F. Stokes, 1912.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy G635.H4 R6 1947 gift of David and Deirdre Stam, 2024.
- ISBN:
- 0815411251
- 9780815411253
- OCLC:
- 46866277
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.