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North Pole Promise
S. Allen Counter
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Description for North Pole Promise
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 75 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1QMP; HBJQ; HBLW; HBT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 260 x 216. .
North Pole Promise tells the story of a secret legacy of two famous explorers: Commander Robert Peary and Matthew Henson—one white, one African American, who, with four Inuit assistants discovered the North Pole in 1909. Peary and Henson returned to the US shortly after—the white Peary to acclaim, the African American Henson to obscurity—never to go to the Pole again. They each left behind sons, fathered with indigenous Greenlandic Inuit women. In the 1980s, on a research trip to Greenland, Dr. Allen Counter was introduced to two men in their eighties—the surviving “Amer-Inuit” sons—one from each explorer. Dr. Counter, an ... Read more
North Pole Promise tells the story of a secret legacy of two famous explorers: Commander Robert Peary and Matthew Henson—one white, one African American, who, with four Inuit assistants discovered the North Pole in 1909. Peary and Henson returned to the US shortly after—the white Peary to acclaim, the African American Henson to obscurity—never to go to the Pole again. They each left behind sons, fathered with indigenous Greenlandic Inuit women. In the 1980s, on a research trip to Greenland, Dr. Allen Counter was introduced to two men in their eighties—the surviving “Amer-Inuit” sons—one from each explorer. Dr. Counter, an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Bauhan (William L.),U.S. United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780872332461
SKU
V9780872332461
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