Eric Jay Dolin
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The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail
$27.99 Read moreFrom the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor, wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the eleven
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1324096322
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
$19.99 Add to cartIn Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin–“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)–tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel,
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096748
- Language: English
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Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
$18.95 Add to cartAs Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would one day bear his name, he grew concerned that his Dutch patrons would be disappointed in his failure to find the fabled route to the Orient. What b… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0393340023
- Language: English
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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
$18.95 Add to cartThe epic history of the “iron men in wooden boats” who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” Herman Melville proclaimed,… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393331571
- Language: English
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A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
$18.95 Read moreWeaving together tales of tragedy and folly, of heroism and scientific progress, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin shows how hurricanes have time and again determined the course of American history, … [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1631499068
- Language: English
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When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail
$31.99 Add to cartBrilliantly illuminating one of the least-understood areas of American history, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin now traces our fraught relationship with China back to its roots: the unforgiving nin… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0871406896
- Language: English
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Brilliant Beacons: A History of the American Lighthouse
$18.95 Add to cartIn this “magnificent compendium” (New Republic), best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin presents the definitive history of American lighthouses, and in so doing “illuminate[s] the history of America itsel
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492500
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
$29.99 Add to cartIn Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin–“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)–tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel,
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093080
- Language: English
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
$32.50 Read moreThe heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vess
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1631498258
- Language: English
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Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America’s Most Notorious Pirates
$19.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracy’s “Golden Age” – spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s – when l… [more below]
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1631496220
- Language: English
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartThe heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vess
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1324093641
- Language: English
