Matthew Henson (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Gilman
- First Published: 1988
- Time of Work: 1866–1955
- Setting: Nicaragua, the United States, and the Arctic, especially Ellesmere Island and northern Greenland
- Principal Characters: Matthew Henson, Robert E. Peary, Ootah
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Adventure, Biography, Arctic, Exploration or explorers, North Pole, Inuit
- Locales: United States, Arctic, Nicaragua, Greenland
Form and Content
Both a biography of a courageous African-American man and a history of the exploration of the North Pole, Michael Gilman’s Matthew Henson: Explorer gives the reader an in-depth account of the six expeditions to the Arctic that finally resulted in reaching the North Pole. The expeditions were led by Robert E. Peary, whom Henson met, according to the opening chapter of the book, while working in a hat shop in Washington, D.C. Peary, a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, was preparing to lead an expedition through Nicaragua in an attempt to...
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