Carole Boston Weatherford: I, Matthew Henson: Polar Explorer.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Book review)

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 ...