TY - BOOK AU - Walters,Eric TI - The Pole SN - 9780143312482 U1 - F WAL PY - 2008/// CY - Toronto PB - Puffin Canada KW - Peary, Robert E. KW - Bartlett, Robert A. KW - Henson, Matthew Alexander, KW - Roosevelt (Ship : 1904-1937) KW - Fiction KW - Arctic regions KW - Authors, Canadian KW - Canadian fiction KW - FICTION / Historical / Canada KW - bisacsh KW - FICTION / Action & Adventure N1 - Middle grade / teen N2 - Fictionalized retelling of Robert Peary's 1909 expedition to the North Pole aboard The Roosevelt, as experienced by a young cabin boy named Danny, away from home and at sea for the very first time. This highly adventurous tale features Canadian hero Robert Bartlett, captain of The Roosevelt, and Matthew Henson, Peary's assistant and the first African-American Arctic explorer ER -