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Autobiography/Memoir

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Matthew Henson

Matthew Henson

2001

This is the story of African American explorer Matthew Henson (1866-1955), who was orphaned as a young boy, then in kinship care for a while, and working as a cabin boy by the time he was 12. For more than 20 years, Henson accompanied Commander Robert Peary on expeditions to the Arctic.

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