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African American explorers

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• Explorers -- United States

• African American explorers -- Biography
• Henson, Matthew Alexander, 1866-1955

• Afro-American explorers
• Explorers, African American

• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, page images, and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• For the Recognition of Matthew A. Hensen: Hearing Before the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, House of Representatives, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 12388, a Bill To Provide for the Recognition Of The Heroic Conduct and Devotion To Duty of Matthew A. Hensen, One of the Survivors of the Polar Expedition of Admiral Peary, and To Provide a Life Pension for the Said Matthew A. Hensen; May 22, 1936 (Washington: GPO, 1936), by United States House Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Negro Explorer at the North Pole (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1912), by Matthew Alexander Henson, contrib. by Robert E. Peary and Booker T. Washington
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, page images, and Librivox audio
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antarctica (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Gilbert Dewart (PDF at Ohio State)
• Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy, 1798-1877 (Washington: Naval History Division, Dept. of the Navy, 1978), by Charles Wilkes, ed. by William James Morgan, David Budlong Tyler, Joye L. Leonhart, and Mary F. Loughlin, contrib. by John D. H. Kane (page images at HathiTrust)

• To the Pole: The Diary and Notebook of Richard E. Byrd, 1925-1927 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard Evelyn Byrd, ed. by Raimund E. Goerler (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antarctica (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Gilbert Dewart (PDF at Ohio State)

• Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, U.S. Navy, 1798-1877 (Washington: Naval History Division, Dept. of the Navy, 1978), by Charles Wilkes, ed. by William James Morgan, David Budlong Tyler, Joye L. Leonhart, and Mary F. Loughlin, contrib. by John D. H. Kane (page images at HathiTrust)