Read in English by
Lee Smalley
In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous,
exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the never-before
reached point on earth, the North Pole. "Robert Peary is remembered as the
intrepid explorer who successfully reached the North Pole in 1909. Far less
celebrated is his companion, Matthew Henson, a black man from Maryland.
Henson's gripping memoir, first published in 1912, tells this unsung hero's
story in his own words. Henson...was indispensable to the famous explorer's
journey; he learned the language of the Eskimos, was an expert dog-sled driver
and even built the sleds...." (Publishers Weekly)
"An original document.... One of the giants of polar exploration, Henson
had the graceful modesty of genuinely big men.... The world would know even
more about him now if his commander, Peary, had been less an egotist and more
generous in sharing credit for his discovery of the North Pole." (Washington
Post Book World)
"A really valuable addition to the literature of [polar exploration]
Filled with incident, occupation, description, emotion, [and] comment."
(The New York Times)
Runtime approx. 4 hours in 21 chapters approx. 10 minutes each
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