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A Negro explorer at the North Pole

Title

A Negro explorer at the North Pole / by Matthew A. Henson ; with a foreword by Robert E. Peary, rear admiral, U.S.N., retired ; and an introduction by Booker T. Washington ; with illustrations from photographs.

Author

Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955

Publication

New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, publishers, [1912]
©1912.

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Description

xx, [2], 200 pages, [7] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 20 cm

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Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Note

With a half-title.
"Copyright, 1912, by Frederick A. Stokes Company. All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian. February, 1912."--copyright statement, verso of title page.
All plates except frontispiece printed on both sides.

Indexed In (note)

Kaplan, L. Bibliography of American autobiographies

Provenance (note)

inscribed: in ink on recto of endleaf preceding half-title page "A.A. Schomburg. Since my return to civilization seven years ago, my mind often reverts to life in the Arctic and there steals over me a great desire to return to those 'frozen ice fields' once more. Yours sincerely Matthew A. Henson." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- ch. 1. The early years: schoolboy, cabin-boy, seaman, and Lieutenant Peary's body-servant ; First trips to the arctic -- ch. 2. Off for the Pole ; How the other explorers looked ; The lamb-like Esquimos ; Arrival at Etah -- ch. 3. Finding Rudolph Franke ; Whitney landed ; Trading and coaling ; Fighting the ice-packs -- ch. 4. Preparing for winter at Cape Sheridan ; The arctic library -- ch. 5. Making Peary sledges ; Hunting in the Arctic night ; The excitable dogs and their habits -- ch. 6. The Peary plan ; A rain of rocks ; My friends, the Esquimos -- ch. 7. Sledging to Cape Columbia ; Hot soldering in cold weather -- ch. 8. In came at Columbia ; Literary igloos ; The magnificent desolation of the Arctic -- ch. 9. Ready for the dash to the Pole ; The commander's arrival -- ch. 10. Forward! March! -- ch. 11. Fighting up the Polar Sea ; Held up by the "big lead" -- ch. 12. Pioneering the way ; Breaking sledges -- ch. 13. The supporting-parties begin to turn back -- ch. 14. Bartlett's farthest north ; His quiet good-by -- ch. 15. The Pole! -- ch. 16. The fast trek back to land -- ch. 17. Safe on the Roosevelt ; Poor Marvin -- ch. 18. After musk-oxen ; The doctor's scientific expedition --ch. 19. The Roosevelt starts home ; Esquimo villages ; New dogs and new dog fights -- ch. 20. Two narrow escapes ; Arrival at Etah ; Harry Whitney ; Dr. Cook's claims -- ch. 21. Etah to New York ; Coming of mail and reporters ; Home! -- Appendix 1: Notes on the Esquimos -- Appendix 2: List of Smith Sound Esquimos.

Call Number

Sc Rare B-Henson, M. (Henson, M. Negro explorer at the North Pole)

OCLC

1999169
NYPGR1999169-B

Author

Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955, author.

Title

Imprint

New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company, publishers, [1912]

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Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Kaplan, L. Bibliography of American autobiographies, 2608

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B-Henson, M. (accession no. B526672) inscribed: in ink on recto of endleaf preceding half-title page "A.A. Schomburg. Since my return to civilization seven years ago, my mind often reverts to life in the Arctic and there steals over me a great desire to return to those 'frozen ice fields' once more. Yours sincerely Matthew A. Henson." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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