A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. With a forward by Robert Peary. Introduction by Booker T. Washington.
Henson, Mathew A.
New York: Frederic A. Stokes Company, [February 1912].
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About the item
First Edition. Portrait frontispiece, 6 photographic plates on 3 leaves. xx, [2], 200pp. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, upper cover with a portrait onlay, lettered in white, rubbed, minor abrasion to the portrait. Repaired void at the top right corner of the title.
Item #378015
A landmark of both Arctic exploration and African-American history, with a foreword by Peary and an introduction by Booker T. Washington. Henson accompanied Peary on six expeditions, including the final sledge journey to the pole. The first to break the color barrier at the Explorer's Club, Henson was also the only member of Peary's party to master the Inuit language and their method of driving dog sleds. His only descendants are through his children with an Inuit woman, Akatingwah.
