A Negro explorer at the North Pole : the autobiography of Matthew Henson / Matthew Henson ; with a new introduction by S. Allen Counter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955, author.

Counter, S. Allen, author of iintroduction.

Contributor:

Stam, David H., associated name, former owner.

Stam, Deirdre Corcoran, associated name, former owner.

Invisible Cities Press, publishers.

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.

Discoveries in geography.

Arctic Ocean--North Pole.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Autobiographies

Biographies

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 154 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Montpelier, VT : Invisible Cities Press, 2001.

Summary:

"When Commander Robert Peary reached the North Pole on April 6, 1909, one other American was with him - Matthew Henson, a black man from Maryland who has been Peary's faithful companion through twenty-two years of polar exploration. In fact, were it not for the lower status that Henson was forced to accept because of his race, he would be seen as the true hero of that successful journey. It was Henson who learned to speak the native tongue of the Eskimos (they called him "Matt the kind one"), Henson who handled the dogs and broke the trail, Henson who built the sleds they traveled on

Due to a failed expedition a decade earlier, during which Peary lost nine of his toes to frostbite and had to be carried two hundred miles to safety by Henson, Peary was nearly a cripple for the final North Pole expedition and could do little more than ride on his sled behind the main party."--Jacket

Notes:

Originally published: New York : F. Stokes, 1912.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy G635.H4 R6 1947 gift of David and Deirdre Stam, 2024. Dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

1931229007

9781931229005

1931229015

9781931229012

OCLC:

45757740