North Pole Legacy: Black, White & Eskimo

S. Allen Counter

University of Massachusetts Press, 1991 - Biography & Autobiography - 222 pages

Account of the lives of Anaukaq Henson and Kali Peary. The American-Eskimo sons of Matthew Henson and Robert Peary respectively, and their families in the village of Moriussaq, northern Greenland.

About the author

Samuel Allen Counter Jr. was born in Americus, Georgia on July 8, 1944. He received a degree in biology from Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College in 1965. He studied neurophysiology and received a doctorate in communication from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1970 before joining Harvard Medical School. He later received a medical degree from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, where he studied audiology and deafness. His interest in discovering the cause of widespread hearing loss among the Inuit of Greenland also allowed him to tracked down the descendants of Matthew A. Henson, a black explorer on Robert E. Peary's 1909 expedition to the North Pole. Counter wrote several books including North Pole Legacy: Black, White and Eskimo and A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. He died of cancer on July 12, 2017 at the age of 73.

Bibliographic information

• Title: North Pole Legacy: Black, White & Eskimo
• Author: S. Allen Counter
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 17, 2008
• ISBN: 0870237365, 9780870237362
• Length: 222 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black; History / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies