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Carole Boston Weatherford: I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)
Horn Book Magazine, The, March, 2008 by Isaacs, Kathleen
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Carole Boston Weatherford I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer; illus, by Eric Velasquez
32 pp. Walker 1/08 ISBN 978-0-8027-9688-2 $16.95
Library edition ISBN 978-0-8027-9689-9 $17.85
(Primary, Intermediate)
Matthew Henson did not travel all the way to the North Pole in 1909 to be forgotten by history. Although his achievements were downplayed by expedition leader Admiral Peary and a country blinded by racism, he was posthumously awarded the National Geographic Society's Hubbard Medal and eventually buried in Arlington National Cemetery beside Peary, with whom he had ...
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