Title: North
Description: Tired of his mother's overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.
Subjects: Eskimos, Fiction, Runaways, Voyages and travels, Inuit
Places: Canada, Bylot Island (Nunavut)
People: Matthew Alexander Henson (1866-1955)