North Pole Promise tells the story of a secret legacy of two famous explorers: Commander Robert Peary and Matthew Henson--one white, one African American, who, with four Inuit assistants discovered the North Pole in 1909. Peary and Henson returned to the US shortly after--the white Peary to acclaim, the African American Henson to obscurity--never to go to the Pole again. They each left behind sons, fathered with indigenous Greenlandic Inuit women. In the 1980s, on a research trip to Greenland, Dr. Allen Counter was introduced to two men in their eighties--the surviving -Amer-Inuit- sons--one...