Peary & Henson : the race to the North Pole

Title
: 
Peary & Henson : the race to the North Pole

Personal Author EPSB
: 
Baron. Bedesky

Other Title
: 
Peary and Henson : the race to the North Pole

Year Published
: 
2006

Series
: 
In the footsteps of explorers

Physical Description
: 
32 p. : illus. (chiefly col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Note
: 
Includes index.

Contents
: 
Contents: The long polar night -- Jewel of the North -- The early years -- The Greenland base -- Ellesmere Island treks -- Life in the Far North -- Surviving the pole -- The people of the North -- On top of the world -- After the expeditions -- Polar legacy.

Personal Subject
: 
Peary, Robert E., 1856-1920.
 
Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955.

Subject
: 
Explorers -- United States -- Biography.
 
African-American explorers -- United States -- Biography.

Geographic Term
: 
North Pole -- Discovery and exploration -- American.

ISBN
: 
9780778724261

Publisher
: 
St. Catharines, ON : Crabtree Publishing, c2006.


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