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    North Pole Legacy: The Search for the Arctic Offspring of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
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    North Pole Legacy: The Search for the Arctic Offspring of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

    By S. Allen Counter and Deirdre Stam

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    In this “poignant and gripping book”, a researcher finds the Inuit descendants of famed Arctic explorers and new insights into their historic mission (The New York Times Book Review).

    North Pole Legacy tells the story of two men whose very existence had been a topic of debate and speculation for decades: Kali Peary and Anaukaq Henson, the Greenland Inuit sons of the legendary explorers Robert Peary and Matthew Henson. In 1986, S. Allen Counter finally met these remarkable individuals face to face.

    Counter had long been an admirer of Matthew A. Henson, the African-American explorer who accompanied Admiral Robert E. Peary to the North Pole twice in early twentieth century. He became intrigued by talk of mixed-race Inuit living in an isolated region of Greenland and eventually journeyed more than a thousand miles north of the Arctic Circle to investigate the claims.

    In this classic of exploration literature, Counter describes the obstacles he overcame to find Anaukaq and Kali, bring them to the United States, and facilitate a reunion with relatives that they had never known. At the same time, the narrative flashes back to the unique history of Matthew Henson and Robert Peary in their collaboration as explorers. Counter sheds important new light on their controversial claim to have been the first people to reach the North Pole.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 13, 2018
    ISBN9781510726383
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    North Pole Legacy: The Search for the Arctic Offspring of Robert Peary and Matthew Henson
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    S. Allen Counter

    S. Allen Counter is a neuroscience professor at Harvard University and the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. He is an active member of the Explorers Club, Consul General of Sweden in Boston and New England, and recipient of an NAACP image award. Counter lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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