A Negro Explorer at the North Pole

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A hardcover first edition of A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, a memoir written by explorer Matthew Henson about his early 20th century international seafaring artic expeditions. There is a forward written by Robert E. Peary and an introduction written by Booker T. Washington. The book is protected by an off-white covered dust jacket. From top to bottom, with a halftone relief headshot of Matthew Henson, it reads: [A NEGRO EXPLORER / AT THE / NORTH POLE / By MATTHEW HENSON / With forward by Robert E. Peary / and introduction by Booker T. Washington / THIS IS the book of the foremost explorer of his race, the negro / who stood at the North Pole with Peary.

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