Allen Counter. Matthew Henson published his own account of the North Pole trip, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (1912), recently republished by Invisible Cities Press (2001). There are also ...

following in the footsteps of Matthew Henson, the African-American explorer, who went there in 1909. He has lobbied the Government to encourage more inner-city children to take the opportunity to ...

Later, he started working with an explorer named Robert Peary, a man who was interested in the Arctic. That’s how Matthew Henson ended up aiming for the North Pole in 1909, and Neil Armstrong ...

Race to the Frozen North by Catherine Johnson tells the incredible true story of Arctic explorer Matthew Henson. Catherine visited Authors Live to read from the book and talk about how she wrote it.