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Matthew Henson : co-discoverer of the North Pole / Laura Baskes Litwin.
LIBRA - Rare G635.H4 L58 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Litwin, Laura Baskes, author.
- Series:
- African-American biographies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955--Juvenile literature.
- Henson, Matthew Alexander.
- African American explorers--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- African American explorers.
- North Pole--Discovery and exploration--Juvenile literature.
- North Pole.
- Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.
- Explorers.
- African Americans--Biography.
- North Pole--Discovery and exploration.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Arctic Ocean--North Pole.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Literature.
- Biographies.
- Juvenile works.
- Physical Description:
- 128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, 2001.
- Summary:
- Examines the life of African American explorer, Matthew Henson, who placed the American flag at the North Pole in 1909, but was never credited for this because of racial prejudice.
- Contents:
- Close call
- Seaworthy
- Blueprint for a canal
- Trailblazers
- "The long race with death"
- Marathon
- Farthest north
- "The prize of three centuries"
- After the arctic.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-126) and index.
- Local Notes:
- LIBRA Rare copy G635.H4 L58 2001 gift of David and Deirdre Stam, 2024. Former library copy (Harris County Public Library)
- ISBN:
- 0766015467
- 9780766015463
- OCLC:
- 44413895
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