Thursday, December 1, 2022

Matthew Henson, Peary’s Aide, Was Every Bit the Polar Explorer His Boss Was

As steam and rail shrunk the globe at the turn of the 20th Century the race was on to claim the last great prizes of exploration, and of the globe’s rapidly diminishing list of untouched extremes, the geographic North Pole was literally and figuratively at the top. The first to reach the Pole would secure […]

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