A Negro Explorer at the North Pole: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew A. Henson: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 22 original MP3 tracks, 3:41:21 running time and a link to listen.
A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, credited to Matthew A. Henson, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew A. Henson. Read in English by Lee Smalley In this fascinating memoir, Matthew Henson describes the incredibly dangerous, exhausting, and bone-chilling trip to what was until then the never-before reached point on earth, the North Pole. "Robert Peary is remembered as the intrepid explorer who successfully reached the North Pole in 1909. Far less celebrated is his companion, Matthew Henson, a black man from Maryland. Henson's gripping memoir, first published in 1912, tells this unsung hero's story in his own words. Henson...was indispensable to the famous explorer's journey; he learned the language of the Eskimos, was an expert dog-sled driver and even built the sleds...." (Publishers Weekly) "An original document.... One of the giants of polar exploration, Henson had the graceful modesty of genuinely big men.... The world would know even more about him now if his commander, Peary, had been less an egotist and more generous in sharing credit for his discovery of the North Pole." (Washington Post Book World) "A really valuable addition to the literature of [polar exploration].... Filled with incident, occupation, description, emotion, [and] comment." (The New York Times)
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Negro Explorer at the North Pole
- Author credits: Matthew A. Henson
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 22
- Listed recording duration: 3:41:21
Catalogue topics
- non-fiction/travel
- non-fiction/geography
- non-fiction/exploration
Track guide
- 00 - Forward\; Introducton — 9:59
- 01 - Chapter 1 — 16:09
- 02 - Chapter 2 — 11:59
- 03 - Chapter 3 — 9:56
- 04 - Chapter 4 — 5:38
- 05 - Chapter 5 — 6:51
- 06 - Chapter 6 — 7:03
- 07 - Chapter 7 — 11:50
- 08 - Chapter 8 — 8:22
- 09 - Chapter 9 — 5:02
- 10 - Chapter 10 — 3:37
- 11 - Chapter 11 — 17:10
- 12 - Chapter 12 — 11:27
- 13 - Chapter 13 — 14:24
- 14 - Chapter 14 — 12:13
- 15 - Chapter 15 — 15:05
- 16 - Chapter 16 — 5:42
- 17 - Chapter 17 — 8:36
- 18 - Chapter 18 — 9:19
- 19 - Chapter 19 — 9:39
- 20 - Chapter 20 — 10:57
- 21 - Chapter 21 — 10:23
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