| North Pole Promise: Black, White, and Inuit Friends Contributor(s): Counter, S. Allen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0872332462 ISBN-13: 9780872332461 Publisher: Bauhan Pub OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Nonfiction | Adventure & Adventurers - Young Adult Nonfiction | Social Topics - Prejudice & Racism |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 7" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Arctic/Antarctic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: North Pole Promise tells the story of a secret legacy of two famous explorers: Commander Robert Peary and Matthew Hensonone white, one African American, who, with four Inuit assistants discovered the North Pole in 1909. Peary and Henson returned to the US shortly afterthe white Peary to acclaim, the African American Henson to obscuritynever to go to the Pole again. They each left behind sons, fathered with indigenous Greenlandic Inuit women. In the 1980s, on a research trip to Greenland, Dr. Allen Counter was introduced to two men in their eightiesthe surviving Amer-Inuit sonsone from each explorer. Dr. Counter, an explorer himself, tells of discovering the fate of those children and ultimately honoring them and their illustrious forebears on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole. |
Contributor Bio(s): Counter, S. Allen: - Dr. S. Allen Counter, Jr., (July 8, 1944-July 12, 2017) member of The Explorers Club FN '89, was a Clinical Professor of Neurology and founding director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations at Harvard University . |