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  • A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
    Matthew Alexander Henson
    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Alexander Henson is the compelling firsthand account of one of the first African American explorers to reach the North Pole. Henson chronicles his participation in Robert Peary’s Arctic expeditions, detailing the extreme conditions, the challenges of polar travel, and the determination required to explore one of the most remote regi...
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  • A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
    Matthew Henson
    Matthew Henson’s memoir recounts his crucial yet long-overlooked role in Robert Peary’s Arctic expeditions, culminating in their 1909 journey to the North Pole. Henson describes the extreme physical hardships of polar travel-blizzards, ice floes, starvation threats-and highlights his deep skills as a navigator, craftsman, and dog-sled driver. He also emphasizes his close relati...
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  • A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
    Matthew Henson
    Seven times had Robert Peary and Matthew Henson attempted to reach the fabled North Pole. Seven times they failed. In 1908, following years of frustration, they gather a crew of Inuit guides and set sail from Greenland, hopeful that the eighth voyage will end in discovery. ...
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    12,68 €

  • A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
    Matthew Alexander Henson
    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, has been considered an important book throughout the human history. So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. The whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. This book is not made of scanned copies and hence the text...
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    15,38 €

  • On Top of the World
    Matthew Henson
    Originally Published as 'A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: The Autobiography of Matthew Henson.'Bone-chilling wind, treacherous ice, and bitter cold. To explorer Matthew Henson, those were mere obstacles worthy of clearing in his pursuit of reaching the North Pole. His account of the perilous journey outlines an incredible feat of the human body and spirit. Henson draws from ...
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    15,83 €

  • A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
    Matthew Henson
    A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912) is a memoir by Matthew Henson. Published a few years following an expedition to the planet’s northernmost point-which he claims to have reached first-A Negro Explorer at the North Pole reflects on Henson’s outsized role in ensuring the success of their mission. Although he was frequently overshadowed by Commander Robert Peary, Henson co...
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    6,75 €

  • I Am
    Matthew Henson II
    Many of my thoughts about Jesus come to me in small groups of souls whose purpose is talking about Him and His ways. It could be a men’s group or dinner with friends, and then out of nowhere, a revelation will come to me and stick with me till I create it. In this case, I recall a discussion we were having in Sunday school, where we discovered that the only person who can truly...
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    14,89 €