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INSCRIBED BY HENSON TO ARTHUR HUFF FAUSET HENSON, MATTHEW A. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. Plates. 8vo, publisher's blue pictorial cloth,
INSCRIBED BY HENSON TO ARTHUR HUFF FAUSET HENSON, MATTHEW A. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. Plates. 8vo, publisher's blue pictorial cloth, minor wear; minor staining at edges. New York, (1912)
- Notes: first edition. inscribed and signed by henson to african-american author and scholar arthur huff fauset. Henson's story is well known. Born in Baltimore, he went to sea in 1879 at age 13 and taught himself to read and write. He met Robert E. Peary in 1884, was hired, and spent the next 25 years travelling with him. He accompanied Peary on 8 journeys to the Arctic over a period of 18 years. After several failures, Henson, Peary and 4 Inuit comrades reached the North Pole on 7 April 1909. Henson's contribution was not acknowledged until 1937, when he was made an honorary member of the Explorer's Club. Subsequently he was honored by Congress (1944), the Geographical Society of Chicago (1948), and Presidents Truman (1950) and Eisenhower (1954). He died in New York City in 1955.
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